Comment by orbital-decay
14 days ago
The amount of hidden state modern hardware uses is humongous, it's infeasible without abstracting it in a VM. I remember some Win9x software that would let you save the process state to disk and restore it later, but even in that much more primitive era it was hit and miss.
and yet, Microsoft do it on their consoles with the "quick resume" feature.
It helps to have full control over software and hardware.
It helps that these are all segregated HyperV VMs. Basically like Qubes.
> Win9x