I'm still wondering why there's nothing to take advantage of these multi-core processors to allow someone to run multiple oses simultaneously using one core for each os. No reason you can't use task switching, and run dos, windows, linux, and others all on the same machine, simply dropping each os on it's own processor, and letting it loose. No need for emulation, and no need to virtualize anything (except possibly the video) since keyboard input wouldn't be an issue unless you switched specifically to that cpu. I'm really puzzled why such a system doesn't exist. I haven't a clue how such a thing could/would be implemented, but it's obviously possible, so why hasn't it been done? I realize there's not a huge demand for multiple oses on a single machine, but having linux/windows on the same pc, each booting from it's own hd, using it's own cpu, and not interfering with the other operating systems on the computer would be a huge boon for some, since there'd be no emulation required, no virtualization, and 100 percent native code execution. I think some of the bare metal hypervisors come close to this implementation, but they still have emulation layers instead of granting direct cpu access, so they don't really fit the bill.
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