On Monday 31 March 2003 05:16 pm, Rod Roark wrote: > On Monday 31 March 2003 04:59 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > ... the intended > > audience are readers of the linux gamers' howto who want to know what > > things like vmware are. not people taking a course on java. :) > > OK how about this. I remember a placard with this on it, > sitting on a demo S/370 mainframe when IBM first introduced > "virtual memory" (we now just call it "swap space"): > > If it's there and you can see it, it's real. > > If it's there and you can't see it, it's invisible. > > If it's not there and you can see it, it's virtual. > > If it's not there and you can't see it, it's gone. > > :-) > > For what it's worth I think of a virtual machine as one > that's emulated in software.
Rod - this is awesome! Thanks for a laugh. I might now be able to explain virtual memory to a few family members... _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech