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Unix? Come on, really?
What is Unix in 2024?
I think any modern unix-like operation systems: bsd based,linux based,haiku,minix and other else hundred branches.
dont forget darwin aka MacOS
And iOS, making Unix one of the largest operating systems on the planet
That would be Minix 3, I think, because it runs in (yes, in) all modern Intel CPU’s.
Moving down the stack, Unix systems have never been big on supporting arbitrary drivers: remember that Unix systems were typically coupled to specific machines and vendors. NT, on the other hand, intended to be an OS for “any” machine and was sold by a software company, so supporting drivers written by others was critical. As a result, NT came with the Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS), an abstraction to support network card drivers with ease. To this day, manufacturer-supplied drivers are just not a thing on Linux, which leads to interesting contraptions like the ndiswrapper, a very popular shim in the early 2000s to be able to reuse Windows drivers for WiFi cards on Linux.
Nvidia:
It’s a wonder that someone hasn’t implemented a similar wrapper for WDDM. I suppose they’d rather force the vendors to play nicely.
