Obama’s fighting hard to keep his Blackberry President Barack Obama will have a beloved BlackBerry — and maybe a second, more secure smartphone-like device —
Read moreFault tolerant patent application for virtual machine
[0018]For incoming network packets, the following is done during the logging mode. When a packet is received, an event-request is posted for the VMM, at
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So I don’t understand the novelty in the methods here over the Glazer patent. The replica supervisors provide interfaces to the replicas that are the
Read moreApple’s spotlight and future databases
The UNIX idea that the OS treated files as sequences of uninterpreted bytes was a brilliant technical simplification – so successful that the previously dominant
Read moreDijkstra versus Perlis (updated)
Dijkstra wrote: He [Perlis] published a very obnoxious paper arguing against a mathematical approach to programming cite The paper by De Millo, Lipton and Perlis starts as
Read morefuture of the data center
This article from Ars Technica discusses a talk over the summer by Merrill Lynch’s chief technology architect, Jeffrey Birnbaum on “stateless cloud computing” – most
Read moreOperating system research – 16 years perspective
(links and dates fixed March 15 2015 – thanks to Luu and pm90 at news.y.combinator for digging this up) October 2008: It’s somewhat funny and somewhat sad
Read moreNew paper “H2” on operating system semantics
Please see a new version here. I am continuing to try to develop a practical engineering mathematics for operating system and other complex system code.
Read moreoperating systems are harder than quantum physics
Went to hear Tilak Agerwala talk on the “Future of Data Centers” and was struck again by the way in which system developers and chip
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