Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 13 Sep 1996 15:33:19 +1000 | From | Nigel Williams <> | Subject | Re: [off-topic] Fully virtualisable CPUs (fwd) |
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> > When Jim Paradise first did the Linux port, there was a program which > > provided a virtual AXP machine on AXP, x86, and Sparc platforms. I forget > > what it was called (isp?), but that was how I first booted Linux/Alpha. Does > > anyone know if that program will still run current Linux kernels?
> No, but this is a pure software emulator so its nothing like as fast as a > virtual machine.
I'm sorry, but isn't it a virtual machine regardless of how it's implemented? Even if it _is_ as slow as a dog?
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