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What Is an Operating System? with Anil Madhavapeddy

Signals and Threads

CHAPTER

Zen Hyperviser - A Simple Solution to the Problem of a Hypervisor

In the late nineties, i would spend ages building a beautifully configured windows machine. But in the early two thousands, i worked on the zen hyperviser. Zen also, interestingly, started off as the stunt. It was a bet in the castle pub in cambridge that ker fraser couldn't hack clinox over a week end. And then monday came along and we had the first version of zen.

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