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The Nintendo Switch operating system, Horizon/NX, is a capability-based microkernel architecture. It's nowhere near unusably slow. In fact, its performance are pretty good. It does "cheat" a bit in that the whole OS runs on a single core, dedicating the remaining three cores to the game. But that may actually be the most efficient use of the hardware.


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