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Virtualization: See VMS (1977) Kernel-bypass networking: See microkernels (1967) Need I go on?
by jascii 7y ago
Virtualization: See VMS (1977)
Kernel-bypass networking: See microkernels (1967)
Need I go on?
- geofft 7y agoI think it is a wild misunderstanding of how academic research works to say that the first demonstration of a concept is equal to all further work on a concept. It is like saying that the Human Genome Project isn't recent work because the structure of DNA was discovered in 1953.
- madmax96 7y ago"arithmetic has existed for quite a while...what's the novelty Of Mr. Newton's integral? Mathematics research is irrelevant."
- __jal 7y agoThis is very common thinking - people seem to equate the first discussion of a concept with "discovery" with "the important stuff". If that line of thought were consistent, it would credit Babbage, or maybe Turing, as the last computer scientist to do something useful.
- sdenton4 7y agoAnd machine learning is still stuck in the sixties...
- mateo411 7y agoIt's stuck in the 1760s with the publication of Bayes Theorem.
- jascii 7y agoI would say there is a difference between development that significantly change the way we look at things and adapting known principals to changing demands.. Where exactly that boundary lays is, I admit, murky at best.
- feanaro 7y agoYes, please do demonstrate an ancient source of coverage-guided fuzzing, I would be very interested in that.
- jascii 7y agoI think you could make a point that it would be a practical implementation of the "Infinite Monkey Theorem" made practical by extension of Moore's law.. I think the original author expresses disappointment in the lack of fundamental new developments in system research and he has a point. Then again the wheel hasn't changed much in recent history either..
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- feanaro 7y agoI suspect you're not very familiar with modern fuzzing research because improvements in this area are definitely not simply a manifestation of Moore's law. Many clever and rather fundamental advancements have been invented and implemented here; for instance, the combination of symbolic execution with concrete execution known as concolic testing.
- CalChris 7y agoVMS? See IBM System/360 in 1967.