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From: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
To: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org>
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Subject: Re: Hot Swappable Kernels
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systems like KeyKOS that store all kernel state outside the kernel could 
theoretically do something like this.  if the state is stored inside the 
kernel things get REALLY ugly if you want to try this.


ben