Re: Simple question about CPUs and processes

From: Kamal R. Prasad (kamalpr_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/31/05

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    --- Ryan Sommers <ryans@gamersimpact.com> wrote:

    > security@revolutionsp.com wrote:
    >
    [snip]
    > CPU cares about is
    > endlessly executing instructions fed to it and
    > delivering
    > interrupts/exceptions. What your friend might be

    Im not sure to how many types of hw FreeBSD has been
    ported, but the POWER4 processor (Apple's G5) has
    something called a hypervisor on top of which the unix
    kernel runs. The hypervisor has some facilities for
    partitioning, migration of resources etc.. So, it
    isn't exactly a case of dumb hw in all cases.

    regards
    -kamal

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