Virtualization of operating systems is popular. But considering how many of us are working in virtual machines anyway, things like this: JVM as a Xen Guest OS would be that much sweeter.

If you were going to design an assembly language today, that was a target for a high level language, but also meant to be used on real hardware, and used by real programmers, how would you design it? Now, I'm vaguely aware of "Typed Assembly Language", but know less about it than I ought(so, sidenote, any readable intro's to the area and the ( Read more... )