Classic of the Week: It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware (Timothy Roscoe)
Timothy Roscoe (ETH Zurich, co-lead of the Barrelfish multikernel and the Enzian research computer) gave the joint OSDI/ATC keynote in 2021 and announced up front that he’d chosen the “keynote as therapy” format. What he unloads is a simple argument that keeps getting more true: the machine Linux thinks it runs on doesn’t exist, the thing actually managing a modern computer was never designed by anyone, and the systems research community has mostly stopped looking....