On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Alain Miville de Chêne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Total separation between the operating system and applications (IBM-360). > You could upgrade the OS without reinstalling the apps. > - Virtual machines (only now gaining widespread acceptance)
This was not the sole provenance of mainframes. (But, of course, the specific interface provided by VM was specific to mainframes.) Also, a problem with virtualization on pcs has been that intel's processors do have very good support for that kind of system. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
