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It's a shame to see Windows Sandbox and also Docker touted as novel features. The operating system was supposed to be the original sandbox. Processes run on tim
by nayuki 4y ago
It's a shame to see Windows Sandbox and also Docker touted as novel features. The operating system was supposed to be the original sandbox. Processes run on time slices of a virtual CPU using memory on a virtual address space and accessing a virtual file system. But there are many complicated APIs that are difficult to secure, and the VFS encourages persistent global state shared by all processes.
- pjmlp 4y agoThey aren't novel features, it is still the PC world catching up with mainframes and micro-computers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_Large_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_Large_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS
- tjoff 4y agoThey are novel from a end-users perspective and that they can trivially applied to most stuff that the end-user might be doing otherwise. That the idea and execution existed before doesn't detract at all from that. Something "trivial" can still be a game-changer.