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Rhialto wrote:
> On Sat 05 May 2007 at 18:25:58 -0300, Evaldo Gardenali wrote:
>> zSeries has z/VM partitioning/virtualization software. I doubt sincerely 
>> that someone will virtualize a NetBSD/vax, NetBSD/hpcmips, NetBSD/mac68k 
> 
> Welllll, according to chapter 12 of "DEC STD 032 VAX Architecture
> Standard" EL-00032-00-decStd32_Jan90.pdf the VAX has some optional
> virtualisation instructions, so VAX on VAX should be possible ;-)
> I wonder if the SIMH VAX emulator implements them...
> 
> (Aside, at university we used VM/370 on the IBM mainframe for faculty
> and students, where a machine with 16 M real memory served 200 - 250
> users simultaneously, each running VM/CMS, a single-user operating
> system - so the current hype about what a great new thing this
> virtualisation is is kind of silly to me)
> 
> -Olaf.
:) yes you are true virtualisation is ages old technology. IBM have it on their
mainframes(now zSeries) for a very long time :)

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