"I corrected myself to say "CAN MvBase run as the ONLY O/S, whether or not it's running in a VM"
I gather from Brian's last post that it can't .." Then you'd be incorrect. MvBase is the direct descendent of the Adds Mentor. Imho the "guts" of the system didn't change, merely some issues like the peripheral interface layer. I don't think there was really many systems that spoke directly to peripherals. Most systems spoke to an underlying core that then spoke to the peripheral. Now Ult's implementation on the MicroVax was really a sheer disaster because they didn't bring it low enough and so people had to log into this underlying alien environment to control certain peripheral tasks or to do upgrades. Really a mess. The Adds Mentor also had an underlying core engine but lowly programmers never needed to be aware of it, and yet it was there. The Ultimate virtual machine was not created by Them. And they were not the last to utilize it. In face a remnant of Ultimate still exists and "supports" old users who don't want to switch. Just so, Adds wrote a virtual machine, and this is now MvBase which was bought up by Pick out of the smoldering ruins of GA. And there are still plenty of MvBase systems out there. Will ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
