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Comment by p_ing

9 days ago

Virtualization. FDE. Hot patching. Io Ring (io_uring), etc.

Virtualization is old. I used VMWare on Windows 2000.

  • Not used in the same way, see VBS.

    • I know VMWare workstation is not the same, but there were VBS-like systems back in the 1970's.

      IBM pioneered hardware virtualization for isolation on their System/370 mainframes with VM/370 in 1972.

      VMWare ESX hypervisor brought virtualization to x86 servers (2001).

      Xen hypervisor introduced open-source virtualization for x86 (2003).

      By the time VBS showed up, the concepts were already several decades old.

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Windows 2k already had an io_uring equivalent. That's more of an example of Linux being out of date due to being based off UNIX.