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Re:Nginx on Wasmjit by nickpsecurity on Friday December 07, 2018 @03:27PM (#18631301)
There's been quite a few of these systems over time. Especially sold commercially.

IBM System/38, evolved into AS/400 and IBM i, is one of architectures described in this book:

https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/capabook/

Far as language-based security, the first mainframe for businesses used a high-level language combined with a CPU that dynamically checked the programs. Still sold by Unisys but I doubt hardware checks still exist.

http://www.smecc.org/The%20Architecture%20%20of%20the%20Burr...

The Flex Machine implemented capabilities and trusted procedures in the microcode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flex_machine

ASOS supported a mix of methods where each app was Ada for its safety features but a MLS kernel modeled in Gypsy separated various security levels:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/42a4/e6f812538c18461277c58a...

SAFE explored tagging at CPU level which got commercialized as CoreGuard or Inherently Secure Processor:

http://www.crash-safe.org/papers.html

https://www.draper.com/explore-solutions/inherently-secure-p...

In embedded, there's Java processors that run bytecode natively with some support for separation. They blur the line between VM's and native apps:

http://ajile.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&i...

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