On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 12:24:46PM -0700, Jim Sibley wrote: > Subject: Re: IBM Virtualization Engine > Scott wrote: > [...] > > What this appears to be is a "virtual" layer between > the OS/hardware and the application. The applications > develop to the "virtualization layer" specs and > hardware/OS vendor writes the hardware/OS specific > implementation. > > This seems to be parallel to the Linux implemenations > on various platforms - there is a part of the kernel > that is hardware specific and the rest of Linux is a > "virtualized" set of services that specify how the > hardware implementation should react.
now doesn't that sound like HAL ... (no, not that one, I mean the the Hardware Abstraction Layer, back in the days when the Next-Thing after OS/2 was designed to be 'Now-Testing' NT on intel, alpha (ppc?)) [...] > I would suspect that other software vendors would like > the same capabilities. It would free them from > limiting their market to a single platform (does > windoze come to mind?) yes, they tried yes, they failed, or have you seen Wintel on anything other than Intel? Richard -- No lawyers were bent, damaged, torn, spindeled or mutilated during the creation/transport/delivery of this email. Sorry. Better luck next time! Play again? Have a nice day ;-) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
