From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <439F0F5C.9040507@lanl.gov> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:13:48 -0700 From: Ronald G Minnich User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] MS Research reinvents Inferno? References: <6bec4c2e9eee6a9e5369a0e693dd51b0@9netics.com> <126a2f7d0512130426g575169e4v8a349a9a35c5f855@mail.gmail.com> <283f5df10512130826u1fd2f19ahf71d310e0b6b7ff3@mail.gmail.com> <439EFB7D.4050205@lanl.gov> <3e1162e60512130914i4fc19cefo4beb1f879567fbe0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60512130914i4fc19cefo4beb1f879567fbe0@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: c33c3092-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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