[coyotos-dev] Reasons for persistence

[Charles Landau]

At 2:01 PM -0400 6/4/07, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>Perhaps one of the KeyKOS people will chime in here as well.
>
>As I understand it, GNOSIS/KeyKOS adopted checkpoint/restart as a way to
>avoid the "secure restart" argument.

Yes, that was a major motivation in KeyKOS and CapROS.

>A side benefit is recovery and such.

And that was another motivation. It comes from a user-centric view 
rather than an OS-centric view. The computer should take 
responsibility for remembering what you told it.