Singularity – Microsoft's Experimental Operating System (opens in new tab)

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4 pointse-topy9mo ago2 comments

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It's worth mentioning Microsoft's Midori, a follow-on to Singularity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(operating_system)

Joe Duffy, who worked on Midori, wrote some on his blog about it: https://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/blogging-about-midori/

jasonthorsness9mo ago

I wonder whether Midori could have been a contender for some of the WASI/WASM isolation packing lots of functions into one system, like Cloudflare Workers or Vercel Edge. Maybe Midori was ahead of its time.

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EvanAnderson9mo ago

It's worth mentioning Microsoft's Midori, a follow-on to Singularity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(operating_system)

Joe Duffy, who worked on Midori, wrote some on his blog about it: https://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/blogging-about-midori/

jasonthorsness9mo ago

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