[rescue] More IBM emulation fun

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 13:54:21 CST 2009


Mike Meredith wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:33:39 -0800, John Lengeling wrote:
>> What most people fail to realize is that a lot of stuff in computers
>> can be traced back to IBM who first invented stuff 30-60 years ago...
>> IE: multiprocessors, virtualization, punch cards,
> 
> Sometimes these inventions came about despite IBM's best efforts :)
> Melinda Varian has an interesting document about the history of VM
> at :-
> 
> 	http://www.princeton.edu/~melinda/

I can wholeheartedly recommend Melinda's pages.  She has some of the 
best historical information about VM out there.

Peace...  Sridhar



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