It's now quite commonplace to define virtual machines for "userland" code - the Java VM, the CLR, the Parrot virtual machine and 'hidden' VMs that underlie various programming language implementations such as CPython and Scheme 48.
However, it's more unusual to define a virtual machine for running an operating system kernel upon. Which is exactly what I set out to do with HYDROGEN, a kernel-level virtual machine for the ARGON project.
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I came accross a copy of AI Memo 628, which describes the MIT CHAOS network. I love reading about old computer technology, since they come from a time where creativity was unbridled; nowadays, suggesting a new technology that isn't intimately compatible with The Legacy Systems is unwise, so we carry their mistakes onwards for ever more.
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I've been tinkering with the design for ARGON since I was about eleven or twelve, I think.
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One of the neat things in Unix is that you can make 'shell pipelines' of commands, from a suite of tools that come with most Unix systems, by feeding the output of one command into the input of another.
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For too many years now, it's seemed like we've being dragged from situation to situation, at the whim of events rather than steering our own course...
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ARGON | alaric | 
Sat 11th Jul 2009 10:58 pm | 
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