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This is an interesting piece of creative writing, but virtual machines already existed in 2013. There are very few reasons to experiment on your dev machine.
by killerstorm 2y ago
This is an interesting piece of creative writing, but virtual machines already existed in 2013. There are very few reasons to experiment on your dev machine.
- rcbdev 2y agoOS / driver development needs to be done on bare metal sometimes.
- grishka 2y agoSometimes you have to debug on a real machine. When you do, you'd usually use a serial port for your debug output. Everything has one.
- pjmorris 2y agoAt the time, Mickens worked at Microsoft Research, and with the Windows kernel development team. There may only be a few reasons to experiment on your dev machine, but that's one environment where they have those reasons.