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On Mon, Jun 06, 2022 at 10:47:31AM +1000, George Michaelson wrote:
> Kernels might be good: they're also horrendously complex now.

Amen to that.  I started on uniprocessor kernels that disabled interrupts,
very simple model.  Then SMP but coarse grained locks, still pretty simple.
Then out of order hit and while I get it, it is fine, it still kind of
exploded my mind and I moved to user space, source management stuff.

I have a vague idea what is in a modern Linux kernel and I want nothing 
to do with it, I'm not good enough.