Imagine: An Operating System with Zero Automation

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a world without interrupts and timeouts… legit think it would make an interesting computer science project tho.

In first-time conversation with a friend who has worked for the same ISP for 8 years...

I asked what overnights actually involve for him:

also, the overnight stuff is just like service provisioning and network maintenance, so I wouldn't have to talk to many people

What came to my mind:

already highlighting my lack of knowledge… as far as I understand those two tasks… the first, especially… I guess I’m surprised that’s still something you need to have a human do.

specifically imagining if windows was unable to reasonably distribute its own network services and you had to do it yourself lol

The Linux Distribution Equivalent of John Cage's 4'33"