Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:30:52 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Dru <genisis@istar.ca> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd supported Message-ID: <v04011706b30461fb21f2@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <36DE3EF1.6A7C1E3B@newsguy.com> References: <3.0.6.32.19990303215810.007c73d0@istar.ca>
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At 5:06 PM +0900 3/4/99, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: >Dru wrote: >> >> Has anyone seen this yet? >> >> http://www.windowstechedge.com/wte-1999-03/wte-03-vmware.html?0301 >> >> Interesting concept. Even more interesting that FreeBSd is one of the >> supported operating systems. Think of the ramifications: users can compare >> FreeBSD to 7 other operating systems and decide for themselves. > > Innovative? As in, compared to pre-vm/360 machines??? Innovative, as in every time I have asked about this in the past, people have said that it was not possible to do this on the Intel chipsets. IBM hardware was designed to make this doable at near native-speeds, but (I have been told in the past) Intel's instruction set would have to be simulated to get it done right. The innovation isn't the "VM" idea, it's getting it to work on this particular hardware. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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