{"id":524,"date":"2004-08-16T23:16:34","date_gmt":"2004-08-17T03:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=524"},"modified":"2004-08-16T23:16:34","modified_gmt":"2004-08-17T03:16:34","slug":"acm-queue-virtual-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"ACM Queue: Virtual Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"

The recent issue of ACM Queue<\/a> is about virtual machines and has some excellent articles that explicitly look at the drift in the concept of a VM from the 60s when a VM was a hardware simulation for sharing to today when the a VM, like the Java VM, can simulate a machine that does not really exist.
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\nThe two articles I liked were:
\nACM Queue – Simulators: Virtual Machines of the Past (and Future) – Why would anyone ever want to write software for machines that no longer exist – and even if they did want to, how would they go about it?<\/a> – This discusses an interesting historical simulation project – The Computer History Simulation Project<\/a>. There is also a fascinating short discussion of the types of problems they encountered creating a machine simulator.
\nACM Queue – The Reincarnation of Virtual Machines – Like the best of the 1970s and 1980s, VMs have returned to the scene — and they’re a lot cooler than polyester pants.<\/a> This article has some good general definitions of types of virtual machines.
\nACM Queue – For Want of a Comma, the Meaning Was Lost – What does punctuation have to do with software development?<\/a> – this is by Jef Raskin (of the Macintosh project fame, Canon Cat, and the book, The Humane Interface) and is a letter addressed to Lynne Truss of Eats, Shoots and Leaves fame. Nice to see a punctuation writer being addressed in an ACM document.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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