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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: jon@jonshouse.co.uk
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
	coreutils@gnu.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Feature request, "create on mount" to create mount point directory on mount, implied remove on unmount
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2015 01:40:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6448.1436161237@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Jul 2015 03:34:59 +0100." <1436150099.16546.346.camel@jonspc>

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On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 03:34:59 +0100, jon said:

> I remember "virtual memory" and even "virtual addressing" but I think
> the term "virtual machine" is modern, maybe someone else knows, google
> did not help me much trying to prove it one way or the other.

Hardly.  IBM was working with virtual machines as far back as the
IBM S360/67 in the late 60s (and even a highly modified /40), and released
VM/370 in 1972.  They used the term 'Virtual Machine' as early as 1966:

R. J. Adair, R. U. Bayles, L. W. Comeau, and R. J. Creasy, A Virtual Machine
System for the 360/40, IBM Corporation, Cambridge Scientific Center Report No.
320-2007 (May 1966)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_%28operating_system%29

(And that's just what I'm familiar with from being a VM jock from 1982 to 2000,
I'm sure there's earlier references...)


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-06  5:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-03 12:01 Feature request, "create on mount" to create mount point directory on mount, implied remove on unmount jon
2015-07-04 20:56 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2015-07-04 22:48   ` jon
2015-07-05 14:29     ` Al Viro
2015-07-05 15:46       ` jon
2015-07-05 17:39         ` Al Viro
2015-07-05 23:35           ` jon
2015-07-06  1:08             ` Al Viro
2015-07-06  2:34               ` jon
2015-07-06  3:07                 ` Al Viro
2015-07-06  5:40                 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2015-07-15 14:38     ` Karel Zak

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