Look up windows architecture it refers to them as virtual machines.
Calvin Smith wrote:
> >I don't think many people realize that windows in itself is a hardware
> >multiplexer. Just full of VM's. To my knowledge each and every program is
> >run
> >in its own VM (except for 16bit apps that are all run in the same one).
>
> I think it's more correct to say that each program runs in it's own
> 'address space' than it's own VM.
>
> Calvin R. Smith
>
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