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House is an OS in a very different sense than Urbit - the "boots on bare metal" sense. The core of House is a monad which represents the hardware state of a common Intel box.

Urbit is intended to run virtually in the cloud and is an OS only in the sense of "stores your data and runs arbitrary programs". As a cloud computer its "function" is simply (old state, packet in) -> (new state, packets out). For communicating with the host OS this generalizes to "event in" and "actions out." Eg, I got an HTTP connection so I send an HTTP response. So not only isn't it done, it isn't even very smart... but it is a function and it is an OS.



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