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Infrastructure software helps avoid directly managing hardware. You can change an OS all you want but that won't change the problem of managing physical resourc
by hueving 10y ago
Infrastructure software helps avoid directly managing hardware. You can change an OS all you want but that won't change the problem of managing physical resources (storage, network, compute).
- spyrosg 10y agoWasn't that precisely supposed to be the operating system's job? One, virtualising (Processes in Unix are little virtual machines), and two, hardware resources management (file systems, time sharing, ...). Distributed operating systems tried to do that for multiple computers, but instead we get ad-hoc crap on top of single machine OS'es. Progress!