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From: Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>
To: TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Has this been discussed on-list? How Unix changed Software.
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2022 09:52:24 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2209070951500.32531@sd-119843.dedibox.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W73PosrK0V_HC4jCLEp+v18DR5_jioZD+0YR4_JR8jNPw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 7 Sep 2022, Dan Cross wrote:

> Second, I have it directly from folks who worked on Hyper-V that it is
> neither based on Unix/Linux, nor strongly influenced by either VMWare
> or Xen. It was an entirely in-house project at MSFT that probably
> includes more DNA strands from Windows than Unix et al. Some of the
> stories about clashes with Cutler to change the Windows startup
> sequence to accommodate Hyper-V are interesting (short version:
> Cutler, in typical fashion, didn't want to and early versions of
> Hyper-V basically booted under windows, then "took over" the running
> machine so that Windows resumed, but suddenly in a VM where it had not
> been before).

That sounds like what Compaq's CEMM (a.k.a. EMM386) did with MS-DOS.

-uso.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-07 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-05 23:48 [TUHS] " steve jenkin
2022-09-06 16:09 ` [TUHS] " Marc Donner
2022-09-07  4:00   ` steve jenkin
2022-09-07 14:58     ` John Cowan
2022-09-07 17:13     ` Paul Winalski
2022-09-08 14:12       ` Paul Winalski
2022-09-07  5:15   ` steve jenkin
2022-09-07 13:20     ` Dan Cross
2022-09-07 13:52       ` Steve Nickolas [this message]
2022-09-07 12:53 ` [TUHS] STDIN/OUT vs APIs [was: How Unix changed Software] Brian Zick
2022-09-07 13:19   ` [TUHS] " John Cowan
2022-09-07 15:39     ` Joe
2022-09-07 15:43       ` John Cowan
2022-09-07 16:01         ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2022-09-06 15:07 [TUHS] Re: Has this been discussed on-list? How Unix changed Software Douglas McIlroy
2022-09-06 17:13 ` Larry McVoy
2022-09-07  1:40 ` steve jenkin
2022-09-07  2:33   ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-09-07  4:08     ` Steve Jenkin
2022-09-07 13:08   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2022-09-07 14:56   ` Larry McVoy
2022-09-07 21:27     ` Steve Jenkin
2022-09-07 22:36       ` Larry McVoy
2022-09-08 14:42       ` Paul Winalski
2022-09-08 15:02         ` Larry McVoy
2022-09-08 15:04         ` ron minnich
2022-09-08 15:52           ` Warner Losh
2022-09-08 16:47             ` Paul Winalski
2022-09-08 16:50             ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-09-08 17:58               ` ron minnich
2022-09-06 19:04 Douglas McIlroy

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