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		sehugg on June 30, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Taos Operating System (1991) A GPU driver is a pretty grand abstraction.

haberman on June 30, 2015 [–]

How so? Yes it provides complex abstractions, but these are not inventions of the software, it is just exporting the abstractions supported by the hardware.

monocasa on June 30, 2015 | [–]

And in fact the kernel space interface doesn't abstract much at all. All of this Vulkan/Metal/DX12 stuff really looks like someone decided to simply export the kernel level interface in a cleaner way.

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