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It's 2010 and we're still running a lot of native code with no OS-enforced sanity checks on pointer arithmetic or types or capability tokens. "Crash" and "boot"

It's 2010 and we're still running a lot of native code with no OS-enforced sanity checks on pointer arithmetic or types or capability tokens. "Crash" and "boot" are "virus" are phenomena the general public have become familiar with. Someday we're going to look back on all this as grotesquely stupid, even negligent. (But I can't see a path from here to there. Especially one that involves getting paid to write an OS worth using.)

parenthesis 16y ago
You might find Microsoft Research's Singularity project of interest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_(operating_system) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_(operating_system) http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/singularity/ http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/singularity/ See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(operating_system) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(operating_system) .
- viraptor 16y ago
  Or if you're worried about the licensing of Singularity, Singh and others, check out MOSA (http://www.mosa-project.org/ http://www.mosa-project.org/) which tried to bring back SharpOS and EnsembleOS together (both inactive now unless something changed lately), or jNode (or many others I missed probably). They should be all in a runnable state (even if very limited). There's been a lot of this stuff happening around. There are many paths - which unfortunately cannot include many of the existing native (unsafe) solutions.