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Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
> Xen is basically an OS.  You may argue with this, but if it manages
> hardware and provides and API to that hardware, it's an OS.  It will
> eventually grow in size and complexity until it gets like any other OS.

Perhaps...but it doesn't do multi-tasking or memory management or
anything like that.

> The difference is that Intel *controls* Xen.  It can modify its chips
> and tell the Xen folks the fast/good/only way of doing stuff.  Think DRM
> at the hardware level.

The Xen I am talking about is open source software by some guys at a
university. It supports AMD and Intel equally as far as I can see.

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Tracy R Reed
http://ultraviolet.org
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