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Martin Harriss wrote:
> See the following paper (by a colleague) for more than you wanted to 
> know about the development of VM.  It was, in the beginning, a skunk 
> works project.
> 
> http://pucc.Princeton.EDU/~melinda/25paper.pdf


Great paper, also details the "go closed source" decision in 1982, which 
I doubt IBM would do today.

ron