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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] MS Research reinvents Inferno?
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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:05:17 -0600
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i don't think it's possible to like or dislike ibm or m$ as a whole.
they're much too big for a monolitic opinion

- erik

Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> writes

| 
| David Leimbach wrote:
| 
| > I'd probably get some of those "new" Intel/AMD CPUs that will have 
| > integrated hypervisor support and work on something that's more like an 
| > Exokernel/Xen hybrid.
| 
| worth noting that the xbox does this. It has a hypervisor. It is a very 
| innovative piece of gear in many ways, worth learning from. The Xbox 
| (and probably the ps/3) are going to bring hypervisor to the masses -- 
| and the hypervisor smarts are at IBM.
| 
| There's some neat stuff going on, even if you might not like the folks 
| doing it.
| 
| ron