Simple question about CPUs and processes

[Kamal R. Prasad]

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

> security at 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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