Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 27th Jun 2007 18:59 UTC, submitted by John Nilsson
The Singularity team at Microsoft has recently published a new article concerning their research OS. It is a concise introduction to the Singularity project. It summarizes research in Singularity 1.0 and highlights ongoing research for Singularity 2.0.
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2005-07-27
It is based somewhat on the idea of microkernels, from the article:
"The first foundational feature common to Singularity systems is the Software-Isolated Process (SIP). Like processes in many operating systems, a SIP is a holder of processing resources and provides the context for program execution. However, unlike traditional processes, SIPs take advantage of the type and memory safety of modern programming languages to dramatically reduce the cost of isolating safe code.
Figure 1 illustrates the architectural features of a SIP. SIPs share many properties with processes in other operating systems. Execution of each user program occurs within the context of a SIP. Associated with a SIP is a set of memory pages containing code and data. A SIP contains one or more threads of execution. A SIP executes with a security identity and has associated OS
security attributes. Finally, SIPs provide information hiding and failure isolation."
On your second remark: this is a research project afaik and is not meant to go to production.