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Linux the Super Borg
The more recent Linux kernels support SMP.
How about the following idea:
Let each processor in a multi-processor system run its own operating system.
One (or more) processor will run Linux and will supervise the entire system.
Other processors will run their own operating systems, in a sandbox mode
(i.e. have access only to part of main system memory, certain disk partitions
will be protected against access by that OS).
If Windows NT will be one of the other operating systems, then:
1. Linux will be able to partially diagnose the reason of a BSOD and reboot the
processor running Windows NT.
2. Linux might even be able to monitor some memory structures in the Windows
NT sandbox and give advance warning of imminent Windows NT crash.
3. The user will communicate with Windows NT via the display. Linux will be
accessible in a window (a telnet window, or X-Window server).
4. Essential services will be run by Linux.
5. Value-added services (including Microsoft Halloween-enhanced protocols) will
be run on Windows NT and Linux will be able to take advantage of them.
If Windows 95 will be the other operating system, then:
1. Linux will be able to monitor and perhaps give advance warning against imminent
crash. It will be able to reboot the Windows 95 running processor.
2. Users will be able to enjoy the idiosyncrasies(SP?) of Office 97 without having
to forego the stability of Linux or buy WABI or wait for a complete Wine.
At any case, it will be possible to embed Unix applications in ActiveX controls
(one of the selling points of software like NutCracker for porting Unix applications
to Windows NT).
--- Omer
"I am Linux of the Super Borg. All mighty Borg resistance is futile.
Borg Culture is irrelevant. You shall be assimilated into Linux environment."
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