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Friday, October 20, 2006

Virtual Machine History & Technology

I was catching up some old podcast of Security Now when I came across this great article: Virtual Machine History & Technology.

Here's the description:

"Steve and Leo discuss the historical beginnings of Virtual Machine technology, from the 40-year-old IBM VM/360 operating system through virtual machine language emulators and today's VMware and Virtual PC solutions. This kicks off a multi-episode discussion of the tremendous security benefits and practical uses of modern day Virtual Machine technology."

Besides the VM technology itself, some oldies they refer to:

  • real mode to protected mode evolution
  • 8086/80286/80386 evolution
  • EMM386, Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager (remember the need to load drivers into high mem?)
  • DESQView, DESKView/X and Windows 3
  • Native versus P-Code discussion
  • Writing directly to video memory at B000 or B800
  • Borland's Turbo Pascal
And much more. Please don't miss it:

High quality (64 kbps) mp3 audio
Quarter size (16 kbps) mp3 audio

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