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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Virtualizing Operating Systems.

All Things Distributed

Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Virtualizing Operating Systems. This weekends back-to-basics reading is on operating system virtualization. There are two papers that deserve the "classic" tag as they both form the basis for operating system virtualization that is in production today.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

Subsystem / Path The ​​ I/O subsystem or path ​​ includes ​​ those ​​ components ​​ that are ​​ used to support an I/O operation. ​​ Also, it ​​ is ​​ generally impractical on a production system.

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