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by a8da6b0c91d 4220 days ago
> All resources -- disk, memory, IP addresses, bandwidth, etc. -- should be able to be assigned to users and/or user groups and managed by the box's true super-user(s).

Can't you pretty much do that with Z/OS and maybe some other mainframe OSs?

Seems what people are shooting for with all this virtualization stuff is almost a redo of the mainframe ideas. Unix is for minicomputers.

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Sure, but those old mainframe OSes are utterly archaic in every other way.