From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 13:31:49 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [TUHS] long lived programs In-Reply-To: References: <02ab01d3c2be$cf335920$6d9a0b60$@ronnatalie.com> <7wfu4qrc6w.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> Message-ID: 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.