[nycbug-talk] Intel Fab

[michael]

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1586655,00.asp

Intel Labs' Natural Born Killer Technologies 
By Rob Enderle
May 6, 2004

Virtual Machine PowerPC Killer. 

This one was easy. Intel showed a FreeBSD-based OS that was running on
one processor, and then with some changes to the kernel, moved it to an
x86-based architecture with no application or performance impact.
This is architected at the hardware level, and the technology is
actually in use by some small hosting companies.

What was new was near-seamless driver support for the technology.
Evidently, they have been working on this for some time. Up until now,
they could move applications, but the drivers were a problem.

Aside from the implications for Apple (with the means to move Mac OS X
to an Intel-based platform), this technology would allow one machine to
run Unix, Linux and Windows more easily, and without the typical
overhead penalty from using a product like VMware.




 -- 
---