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  [6]2018-05-21 — [7]Hardware
  By  [8]Casey Muratori
  Is your computer more stable today than it was in 1990?
  As a piece of computing hardware, a 1990s desktop computer is
  essentially worthless today. By every metric anyone cares about, they
  are vastly exceeded by not just today’s desktop computers, but also by
  tablets and phones.
  But unlike hardware, software has not gotten universally better. While
  features and variety have improved, trust and reliability has, if
  anything, hit an all-time low. Even when software isn’t malfunctioning
  due to proliferating bugs, it is forcing restarts, installing mandatory
  updates, becoming riddled with viruses and malware, covering every
  surface with ads, and routinely betraying the user’s confidentiality.
  Unlike that of yesteryear, software working in the morning today may
  well suddenly stop working in the afternoon, even if the user has done
  absolutely nothing in the interim.
  The lack of platform competition is one important reason why computing
  has deteriorated.
  For consumers, both the desktop and phone markets are now controlled by
  two operating systems each (Windows/Mac OS, and Android/iOS,
  respectively). In all cases, they are maintained by companies whose
  revenue does not primarily come from the sale of operating systems, and
  who have many incentives to pursue other goals that delivering the most
  stable, reliable, trustworthy experience. The operating system is never
  a product anymore  —  it is merely something users are forced to use
  based on the hardware they have chosen, and it is increasingly treated
  solely as a vehicle for pursuing the platform holders’ other business
  goals.
  The unchallenged duopoly on both major computing form factors is likely
  due to the fact that interfacing with consumer hardware is now so
  difficult that it would be impossible for any new operating system to
  enter the market. This may also be a major reason Linux, while
  incredibly successful as a server operating system, has yet to make
  significant inroads as a desktop consumer OS.
  But what if hardware weren’t so hard to control?
  In this lecture, I lay out the case for instruction set architectures
  (ISAs) as a possible first step out of the software quality quagmire.
  While shipping a stable ISA is more expensive that shipping continually
  updated buggy drivers, the rewards both to hardware companies and to
  users could be significant, and would allow those of us who care about
  reliability to start tackling what I have come to call “The Thirty
  Million Line problem”:

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  Eventually, I’d really like to see a return to sensible, simple
  interface standards for hardware, and it seems like pushing for
  consolidation to a few reasonable ISAs is the best way to start.

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