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VM 30 Years Later
Good! MS at last innovated the multiple OS instances running concurrently on the same hardware.

It's only 30 years later after IBM implemented it successfully on its S/370 mainframes with the Virtual Machine (VM) architecture.

But the problem with the MS windows is NOT running multiple instances of it on the same PC, but that its "OS" cannot run SINGLE instance on multiple processors and the lack of smooth distributed system support, that is comparable to that which the UNIX offers.

I guess one of its 35000+ engineers noticed it somehow.Another 30 old (re)innovation...
Posted by: michael-t   Posted on: 11/10/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Old news  bayo0 | 11/10/03
VirtualPC 2004  jonbob | 11/10/03
Don't believe so.  Yen_z | 11/10/03
This should be integrated into the kernel.  DonnieBoy | 11/10/03
VMWare a great way to run any Windows  issthatso | 11/10/03
Coupla reasons  dscherf | 11/10/03
M$ crapware  screaming silence | 11/10/03
Oh great...  bhartman24 | 11/10/03
To be fair  Yagotta B. Kidding | 11/10/03
So what else is new?  Michael Kelly | 11/10/03
yep, until they...  doh123 | 11/10/03
This is a Great Idea  Blue Wolf_z | 11/10/03
Re: This is a great idea  GraysonPeddie | 11/10/03
Two things  Rick_K | 11/10/03
Re: Two Things  GraysonPeddie | 11/11/03
I don't like it much myself either.  Rick_K | 11/11/03
Try it, you'll like it.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/10/03
Huh?  Michael Kelly | 11/10/03
I doubt it  dragosani | 11/10/03
Can't run it since MS killed cross platform  Sunny Jalolly | 11/10/03
why doesn't apple pick up the line?  JoeMama_z | 11/10/03
Where's my password?  Patrick Jones | 11/10/03
really?  JoeMama_z | 11/10/03
Sam...  Cardinal_Bill | 11/10/03
Why using such software?  Andrej.G. | 11/12/03
I hate these talkbacks  Patrick Jones | 11/11/03
Bitty, your BS is getting too thick  Rick_K | 11/10/03
Man, Isn't it past his bed time??? Isn't that his mother calling him???  Plain Logic | 11/10/03
see  lmaxwell | 11/10/03
They need the new income huh?  Cardinal_Bill | 11/10/03
VM 30 Years Later  michael-t | 11/10/03
But they still CHARGE you for each virtual OS copy - eats into TCO savings!  Plain Logic | 11/10/03
Another MS non-innovation? We've been using MVS virtual images for 25 yrs!  Plain Logic | 11/10/03
Another OS/2 feature MS will now claim as its own  MassParty | 11/11/03
VM again.  kthompsn | 11/17/03

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