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From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas)
Subject: [TUHS] long lived programs
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 13:31:49 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.02.1803231329210.43710@frieza.hoshinet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C18A05EC-8E01-4716-9B99-51AD7AF4D420@serissa.com>

On Fri, 23 Mar 2018, Lawrence Stewart wrote:

> Suppose we define a machine architecture not for building hardware, but 
> specifically for itself being easy to emulate?
>
> This is by analogy to para-virtualized device drivers, which are not 
> there to model real devices, but to be easy to support in a virtual 
> machine environment.

I've had an idea to create a sort of idealized VM for running C in (like a 
JVM designed specifically for C) and a full VM-OS type thing as well - but 
I couldn't figure out how to go about implementing it.  Still...sounds 
similar to what you propose, which might not be a bad idea.

-uso.


  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-23 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-23 15:51 Ron Natalie
2018-03-23 15:57 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-23 16:25   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-03-23 16:59     ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-03-23 17:31       ` Steve Nickolas [this message]
2018-03-23 16:32   ` Ron Natalie
2018-03-23 18:27 [TUHS] long lived programs (was Re: RIP John Backus Bakul Shah
2018-03-23 20:50 ` [TUHS] long lived programs Steve Johnson
2018-03-23 21:07   ` Clem Cole
2018-04-05 21:03 Norman Wilson
2018-04-05 21:23 ` Clem Cole
2018-04-05 21:38   ` Bakul Shah
2018-04-06  2:03     ` Random832
2018-04-06  4:27       ` Warner Losh
2018-04-06  4:31         ` Jon Steinhart
2018-04-06  4:58         ` Steve Nickolas
2018-04-06  5:02           ` Jon Steinhart
2018-04-06  4:29       ` Steve Johnson
2018-04-06  5:57       ` Bakul Shah
2018-04-06 21:52         ` Peter Jeremy
2018-04-05 22:46   ` Arthur Krewat
2018-04-05 23:23   ` Paul Winalski
2018-04-05 23:33     ` Arthur Krewat
2018-04-06  0:05       ` Toby Thain
2018-04-06  4:51 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-04-06 15:00 ` Tony Finch
2018-04-07 20:41 ` Paul Winalski
2018-04-06 22:33 Doug McIlroy
2018-04-07  1:01 ` Paul Winalski
2018-04-07  1:09   ` Larry McVoy

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