Reply to post: Re: Old enough to have worked with the Virtual Machine Environment before VMware was founded

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Chris Parsons

Re: Old enough to have worked with the Virtual Machine Environment before VMware was founded

Not really. It depends what you mean by virtualisation. G3 had the SWAP file which allowed 'virtualisation of memory' and G4 improved upon that by dividing memory into pages so that you didn't need to swap entire programs in and out of 'core', but really VME was the first ICL virtualisation product - it allowed you, eventually, to run native VME alongside legacy stuff in DME mode.

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