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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mhoye wrote:
As an aside: I sometimes wonder how much of modern computing efforts are spent making computers pretend they're something they are manifestly not.
CPUs pretending to be single-thread-single-core devices, so programmers build elaborate dispatch multiplexers on top of them, OSes aping PDP11s for their guest code,. SOCs pretending to be hard drives, etc etc.
There's this wild live-action plato's cave metaphor-psychodrama going on in all of our machines all the time and ... nobody knows that.