On Thursday, 05/24/2007 at 10:36 AST, Mike Hammock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now don't be so hard on VM/370 Alan... The first VM I worked on as a > Sysprog was VM/370 ver 2, so I tend to have a soft place in my heart for > it...
Who's being hard on VM/370? It is a fine representation of the state of virtualization technology of the time and can be used to illustrate to students that, yes, Virginia, you CAN have an architecture and operating system that will run the same programs for 40 years. That, and show that a well-architected problem-/supervisor-state machine is sufficient to allow an operating system to run as a guest of itself. Of course, none of that has anything to do with my objection to calling it "normal VM". There's nothing particularly "normal" or "abnormal" about it. It just Is. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
