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To: Tony Viola who wrote (159381)	2/20/2002 1:25:22 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Tony - Re: "Little history thing, the bolded item above was actually introduced by Amdahl and IBM copied it. " Sheesh ! AMDahl (oh GOD - AMDahl begins with AMD !!) could have used some of the MAD patent attorneys !! Paul

To: Tony Viola who wrote (159381)	2/20/2002 10:15:21 AM
From: Tushar Patel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

While VMware may be reminiscent of VM on the mainframes it is a bit different. Whereas VM essentially took over the machine, VMware runs as a true user process. It is one of the coolest things to come around in a while. I routinely use it at home and we use it at work as well to run Linux and Windows on the same box concurrently. The guest OS runs in just another window managed by the host OS. The cool thing is that the virtual machine can access pretty much all the devices of the host (CD, network, modem, sound card ...) fairly easily.