[mikewarot]

Virtual Machines gained popularity as are kludge to get around the remarkably horrible state of operating systems. The inability to reliably save and restore the state of a computer grew to be so costly that it became worthwhile to pay the performance penalty of a layer of emulation/virtualization to route around it.

Containers were the next logical step, as each virtual machine vendor tried to lock in their users. Containers allowed routing around it.

Both of these steps could be eliminated if a well behaved operating system similar to those in mainframes could be deployed, so that each application sat in its own runtime, had its own resources, and no other default access.

There's a market opportunity here, it just needs to be found.