http://featured.gigaom.com/2006/09/15/is-steve-jobs-the-new-lord-of-the-rings/

I was curious what people thought about this concept. Is running Windows and OS X really the best option? What about security issues that will arise with 2 OS running? Yes they aren't on the same chip, but I think it's a matter of time when a hole is opened up, not a matter of if a hole is opened up.

9/15/2006 8:26:52 PM

interesting theory...

9/15/2006 9:30:50 PM

cool idea, but The One Ring metaphor is retarded

9/15/2006 9:38:45 PM

Nice article, thanks for the link.

The security aspect I'm not too overly concerned about. What does interest me is how (and if) software vendors are going to officially support stuff like this. Virtual machines caused a bit of a hiccup with licensing ... wonder what this will do for support services.

9/15/2006 10:05:43 PM

maybe i'm just out of it, but i don't see why you'd need to run multiple operating systems at one time...

9/16/2006 10:36:13 AM

gsx server already does this

9/16/2006 11:22:48 AM

^
Maybe I misread the article, but I read I thought this thing is planning on running multiple OS's without the need for virtualization. Correct me if I'm wrong plz.

9/16/2006 2:39:30 PM

^ that's how i read it, as well

9/16/2006 2:49:53 PM

ditto

9/16/2006 2:50:55 PM

there has to be a "virtualization" layer. you need a main scheduler thread to sleep one "thread" (I'm ASSuming each os would be seen like a thread) and run the other and vice versa. it may be at a really low and fast level, but its not possible without one, remember machine code is procedural.

9/17/2006 11:17:20 AM

virtualization is cool

9/17/2006 12:26:39 PM

^^ i don't know jack shit but isn't that the thing he was talking about? while on cpu handles one thread, another one handles another thread?

9/17/2006 4:51:39 PM