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Unikernels remind me a lot of old applications distributed on floppy disks. The OS/application division is mostly absent and there's potential for real innovati
by richdougherty 9y ago
Unikernels remind me a lot of old applications distributed on floppy disks. The OS/application division is mostly absent and there's potential for real innovation by moving OS-like behaviour into the application - e.g. integrating the garbage collector with the code for swapping.
- ZenoArrow 9y agoIn the days before hard drives were common in home computers (between the early 80s and early 90s), the OS/application division still existed. The OS was built into computers of this era (stored in ROM chips). You wouldn't necessarily interact with this OS directly when using an application, but the OS was still there. To give an example, the Amiga operating system was split into two parts, the Kickstart ROMs and the Workbench GUI. Not all apps would use Workbench, but it's harder to find apps that would work without Kickstart. You'd see evidence of this when running games when the infamous Guru Meditation error came up.