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>https://iwillneverbehappy.neocities.org/blog23#os I'd be sad to learn that Operating Systems are becoming less and less prominently taught, but I think I understand why it may be happening. Computer programs have been abstracted from individual instructions to assembly language; from assembly language to high-level languages; and from simple high-level languages to relatively abstract ones. Continued below.
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You admit, "[t]his may mean nothing in the grand scheme of things." Computer scientists working in Java, Python, or C# hardly need to care what a syscall is. The Tiobe Index confirms these as 3 of the top 5 most popular general-purpose languages, some 27% of the market.
See https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/.
You make a good point about the paradigm shift from assembly languages -> abstracted languages. But it's definitely interesting to see how this shift affects (admittedly specific instances of) CS curricula. Compilers and computer architecture courses seem to have gone down a similar path, so I wonder how the general CS curriculum will look 5, 10 years from now. Anyways, thank you for the thoughtful reply :-)