Re: VM modules in kernel?

From: Mike Castle (dalgoda@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sat Mar 25 2000 - 01:12:50 EST


On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 06:29:55PM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> >No its what the S/390 VM is often called. Its a supervisor for supervisor
> >mode programs so illogically enough its a hypervisor 8). The IBM mainframe
> >guys thing this kind of set up is routine. Unix is met with
> >'You mean you cant run a new kernel on test at the same time as the old
> >one' type remarks.
>
> Hmm.. Sounds like interesting hardware indeed.

Yeah.

Shame hardware that can do that has only been around for, oh, 30-40
years...

mrc

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