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Hi all,

In 2006, or thereabouts, I had an idea for a computer which you could
'rewind' and take it back to any earlier instance. It would do this by
logging every memory write, and every hardware write.

Problems are that you couldn't run a network client like this, because
the state of the network would change in the interim. However, you could
have every computer on the network also rewindable.

The problem i

Jeremy.





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Hi all, In 2006, or thereabouts, I had an idea for a computer which you could 'rewind' and take it back to any earlier instance. It would do this by logging...
Jeremy Smith
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Aug 5, 2008
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You could accomplish that with a the use of an OS hypervisor that traps memory writes via a hardware protection access and journals that to disk for future...
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... Hi, Thanks for the ideas. The reason for the timestamp is I hit 'Send All Messages' by mistake and it posted that old message. Sorry about that! Jeremy....
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