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Comment by rms | Hacker News Reader

How about an exokernel?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exokernel

I've been working on an exokernel off and on for a few years now (haven't gotten very far...school and other projects keep interrupting) in C++.

Want to get to know your toolchain? Write a kernel in C++.

I realized recently that exokernels are basically the same thing as hypervisors. So maybe some lessons from the exokernel can be used in today's virtualized environments. Rails libOS, anyone?

Yea, I've been thinking about that too.

"Yea, I've been thinking about that too"

perhaps a separate post for that? seeing as this post seems to be essentially a content free "I am thinking about ... " ?

Hey man, a lot of code comes from thinking about things for awhile.

the problem is not with thinking about stuff. But if I were to write blog posts about "I am thinking about X" and then submit those posts to news.YC.. well.

Let me not discourage you though. if you think your cogitations deserve the attention of the folks at news.YC, please, go ahead and submit one link per thought. News.YC is an essentially self correcting system, in my experience, and can probably handle such content free links just fine.

The problem is whoever voted it up. Would that we could unmask the bozos;-)

(What's with all the downvoting of a comment that... while it might not really add anything, certainly isn't blatantly offensive or a troll ?)

When people wish they could downvote a story but can't, often they take it out on innocuous comments made by the story submitter.

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