From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 10 10:19:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA04689 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 10:19:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA04684 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 10:19:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA12074 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 10:17:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 10:17:50 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199808101717.KAA12074@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199808081112.HAA05016@lucy.bedford.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 07:12:01 -0400 (EDT) >From: CyberPeasant >Brandon Lockhart wrote: >> You can only have one operating system loaded at a single point in time >> (correct me if I am wrong). >You're wrong :) The IBM mainframe OS, MVS, will run several OS's on >the same machine, simultaneously. Each user gets his own OS. This >is very cool... I believe that my colleague intended to refer to "VM," rather than "MVS." (I was an MVS systems programmer for about 12 years or so; had occasional use of/for VM.) Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message