Source: Hacker News
Article note: Yes, but there are such a horrible set of incentives around that.
Piles of little attached computers with lacking documentation, all trying to obscure their proprietary innards from their users to "protect the vendors' IP" and/or hide the absolute bullshit they shipped.
Common hardware configurations (esp. all the asymmetric multiprocessing things) that don't even have good theoretical solutions, much less practical ones.
Necessary drivers for basic things (eg. modern USB or TCP/IP) that are individually more complicated than a whole OS stack when most of the platform architectures we're running were conceived.
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