Darren New wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Lots of very cool stuff like using the type system to ensure that 
>> hardware registers are accessed in the correct way, etc., but who's 
>> gonna use it?
> 
> Yeah, singularity does this with its device drivers too. Pretty cool, 
> ensuring at compile time that your kernel-mode device driver doesn't 
> step on anything else. :-)

Heh - do you remember back when a "data type" was just a thing to tell 
the compiler how many bits to allocate any whether to include the sign 
bit during comparisons? ;-)

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