[ih] vm vs. memory

P Vix paul at redbarn.org
Tue Oct 24 12:37:11 PDT 2017


That adage doesn't apply to problems you don't yet know you will have.

On October 24, 2017 9:31:47 PM GMT+02:00, Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net> wrote:
>On 10/24/2017 5:12 AM, Paul Vixie wrote:
>> vm is an example of something that started as a workaround but
>> introduced us to a whole different way of thinking about memory.
>
>
>And yet, arguably, it is nothing but the productive application of the 
>Lampson (or Wheeler) adage: "All problems in computer science can be 
>solved by another level of indirection."
>
>
>d/
>-- 
>Dave Crocker
>Brandenburg InternetWorking
>bbiw.net

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