Very curious on Midori and where it is going ..
So based on the following information i will entertain some speculation.
The following is a subset of people who are working on Midori ( see http://www.nabble.com/Midori-in-The-Register-td18739750.html)
Ravi Pandya,
Dean Tribble,
Pavel Curtis,
Eric Northup,
Chris Brumme
Jonathon Shapiro
Recent papers
Ravi Pandya (Architect Technical Strategy) ( has some comments related to small hand held devices/ netbooks and Security / identity
Abstracting Operating environment from Operating System
Dean Tribble ( PrincipalArchitect work in security) Recent patents
Concurrent exception handling
Abstracting Operating environment from Operating System
Hierarchical reservation resource scheduling infrastructure
Co-ordinating Chores in muli processing
Pavel Curtis (Architect) Lots of work on social networking.
Eric Northup ( SOftware ENgineer) , worked on Coyotos (Security, Capability secure Windowing and kernel proof)
Chris Brumme (Architect/ Destinguished engineer) . Major player in the .NET CLR v interesting blog
I’m now on an incubation team, exploring evolution and revolution in operating systems. This is a fascinating area that includes devices, concurrency, scheduling, security, distribution, application model, programming model and even some aspects of user interaction (where I am totally out of my depth). And, as you might expect with my background, our effort also includes managed programming.
This is 2006 and is when the Incubation project (MIdori started) not Singularity ( which had major releases in 2006 but is a research project) . My guess is Midori is about 3-4 years under development ( eg started when the singularity papers were published) .
J Shapiro has a paper on automated device driver testing . Probably a senior architect position major player with Eros and Coyotos capability OS.
Make your own conclusion but at least 5 senior architects are on the team . Im really curious if they are considering capabilities my guess is they are at least going to try /investigate it since they are hiring people from the Coyotos project. Also from Chris 's comment it is likely to be a revolutionary change ( which could very well be a pure managed capability system) .
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