Matthias Buelow  <mkb@incubus.de> wrote:
+---------------
| Kaz Kylheku wrote:
| > Why would I run some poor quality fake virtual machine when I can
| > virtualize an entire operating system, that has MMU based memory
| > management, its own TCP/IP stack, its own accurate process and
| > thread scheduler, etc.
| 
| What has one got to do with the other?
| Want to run a separate OS for every process?
+---------------

Heh. VM/CMS did *exactly* that! When you logged into a VM/CMS
session, you actually "booted" a fresh copy of the CMS operating
system within a new VM/370 virtual machine.

Sutherland's "Wheel of Reincarnation" strikes again!  ;-}


-Rob

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