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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2006-07-30
Singularity can use hardware memory protection.
It just doesn't have to.
What this means is that you could run all verified code in one address space and give all unverified and potentially dangerous code its own address space, in addition.
This way, you can avoid the cost of hardware based memory protection where you don't need it but still use it if it makes sense. I think there was a software engineer mentioning this fine grained control in the third or fourth video...