[cap-talk] Kernels at Microsoft

[Norman Hardy]

I highly recommend the talk by Eric Traut of Microsoft that is online at
http://endeavour.acm.uiuc.edu/UIUC-ACM-RP07-Traut.wmv
The media for the talk uses an impressive browser technology that is  
new to me.
It works well in Safari 3 and Firefox 2.

It concerns the MS involvement with virtual machines and has very high  
content at an architectural level.
Traut speaks as if MS is really moving this direction.
He sounds as if he really believes in simplicity.
He does not make excuses for Windows!

I wish I could report signs of capability enlightenment; they need it!
More accurately they could aspire to much more if they had it.

High points:
75 K lines of privileged code.
Drivers in user mode.
Disk multiplexing code in user mode.
I heard nothing of TPM.

Moving a running app to another platform is something that Keykos  
could perhaps not easily do; we had did not try to design such a scheme.
VMware does this and MinWin claims they will too.
The VM provides a natural cleavage point to do this.