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USENIX ATC '21/OSDI '21 Joint Keynote Address-It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware
Timothy Roscoe of ETH Zurich delivers the joint USENIX ATC/OSDI 2021 keynote arguing that operating systems must reckon with modern hardware, which is a heterogeneous collection of processors, firmware and coprocessors rather than a simple machine. It shows how much runs below and beside Linux.
Why HN readers recommended it
Repeatedly recommended as a revelatory talk on how little control the main OS has over modern SoCs and PCs.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- USENIX
- Topic
- operating systems and hardware
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 12
- HN mentions in dataset
- 20
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I know that I recommended it in the talk, but I highly recommend Timothy Roscoe's OSDI keynote[0] -- and may also be worth catching the Twitter Space we did a few weeks ago discussing it.[1] [0] [VIDEO] [1] [LINK]
bcantrill on Hacker News · 2021-10
In Rust, Wright's Law, and the Future of Low-Latency SystemsThere's this great USENIX talk by Timothy Roscoe [1], which is part of the Enzian Team at ETH Zürich. It's about the dominant unholistic approach to modern operating system design, which is reflected in the vast number of independent, proprietary, under-documented RTOSes running in tandem …
dist1ll on Hacker News · 2022-11
In Tales of the M1 GPUThis isn’t my space to opine on, but I found this talk both riveting and compelling: [VIDEO] In a nutshell, the useful fiction of computer-as-Von-Neumann-meaning doesn’t adequately reflect the reality of modern hardware. Not only does the CPU itself not fit that model (with things …
jcgl on Hacker News · 2026-02
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