I spoke to some of the VMware folks very early in the development of their product -- in fact before they ever released the product for public consumption. At that time (2-3 years ago now) I mentioned to these guys that the VM concept was not new and in fact had been available on mainframe systems since the late 60's. The shocked look on their young faces combined with a further half-hour discussion on the subject served as ample evidence that these members of the VMware team were certainly not inspired by the pre-existence of mainframe VM in any of its incarnations.
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 02:51:16 -0500, David Boyes wrote: >> I guess VMware has no relationship with IBM VM. > >Other than a nod to the S/390 VM as a ancestor. Some of the early papers on >VMWare mentioned the S/390 VM as a motivating force for creating VMWare. > >-- db > >>
