Newsgroups: rec.arts.int-fiction
Path: news.duke.edu!newsgate.duke.edu!nntp-out.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!uni-erlangen.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!lnewspeer00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!server1.netnews.ja.net!hgmp.mrc.ac.uk!pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk!bath.ac.uk!unknown
From: "Ben A L Jemmett" <bal.jemmett@ukonline.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [OT] Graphical Virtual Machine?
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
Sender: unknown@bj1084.resnet.bris.ac.uk (Address not verified)
Organization: Jemmett Glover Software Development
Lines: 22
Message-ID: <Gt1HL2.8o@bath.ac.uk>
X-Msmail-Priority: Normal
References: <a6qisi0248l@drn.newsguy.com> <a6qmlg$n6$1@reader2.panix.com> <a6r5l2$fn$1@slb1.atl.mindspring.net> <3c911d60$0$75458$45beb828@newscene.com> <a6r7l3$lh8$1@reader2.panix.com> <a6rn8k$9n5$1@foobar.cs.jhu.edu> <Gt17Gx.64I@bath.ac.uk> <3C9286AA.36CDFFF9@attglobal.net>
X-Priority: 3
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 00:05:26 GMT
Xref: news.duke.edu rec.arts.int-fiction:101809

"John W. Kennedy" <jwkenne@attglobal.net> wrote in message
news:3C9286AA.36CDFFF9@attglobal.net...
> Probably relates to the fact that the original virtual machines were
> _complete_ virtual machines that ran ordinary bootable operating
> systems, and used virtual memory as the main tool in achieving the
> trick.  Still used today to run multiple operating systems
> simultaneously on a single host mainframe.

Yeah, that'd make sense.  IIRC, IBM were the first to do virtualise a
machine like that when testing or upgrading OSes or something.  I tend to
play with VMware (and the bochs and plex86 projects) though, since I need to
run far too many systems to keep lying around on the hard drive...  VMware
and plex86 are doing the same 'complete machine' thing that you describe,
too.  Bochs is emulating a whole machine down to the processor level, so one
can run x86 code on a SPARC for instance.

--
Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)


