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Koshkin on June 1, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: A virtual machine for microcontrollers

No, an OS is what you see when you turn the damned thing on.

dragonwriter on June 1, 2021 | [–]

> No, an OS is what you see when you turn the damned thing on.

Maybe, a bit, if it's a chatty OS, but, mostly, no, that’s a shell.

pjmlp on June 2, 2021 | [–]

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