Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 18:11:24 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org To: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@fc.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMWare and friends (was: Re: GNOME: Does anyone use it?) Message-ID: <ML-3.4.939085884.9084.patl@asimov> In-Reply-To: <199910042342.SAA64758@freeside.fc.net>
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On 4-Oct-99 at 16:42, Jerry Dunham (jdunham@fc.net) wrote: > patl@phoenix.volant.org babbled: > > VMWare sounds interesting; but even that isn't enough to get me to > > run NT. What I'd really like to see would be an Open Source system > > that is conceptually closer to the old IBM VM/370 design. It could > > use drivers and much of the kernel from *BSD, Linux, or whatever. > > But instead of running on top of another OS, it should be the kernel; > > and it should -not- support running programs directly, only virtual > > machines. Add a mechanism to allow VM-aware OSes to communicate > > with the VM and delegate certain operations (e.g. paging) to it, > > and you've got an ideal system for multi-os or multiple virtual host > > operations. But I digress... > > But it's a digression I LIKE. Are you and I the only ones on this list > who salivate at such thoughts? I WANT a system like that! The depressing thing for me is that I worked on a system like that 25 years ago. And that's not the only area where computer science appears to have stood still or gone backwards during that time. (Just try to find a decent macro processor.) At the popularity of Java, Perl, et. al, seem to finally be breaking the industry free of C's stranglehold; so there is some hope that language development can get back on track. -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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