Re: UNCOL in the news again (again)

mac@coos.dartmouth.edu (Alex Colvin)
13 Apr 1997 21:43:22 -0400

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From: mac@coos.dartmouth.edu (Alex Colvin)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 13 Apr 1997 21:43:22 -0400
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
References: 97-04-053
Keywords: UNCOL

>Subject: Edupage Editors: Edupage, 6 April 1997
>RESEARCHERS PURSUE SOFTWARE'S "HOLY GRAIL"
>Computer scientists at companies such as IBM, Microsoft, Sun
>Microsystems and Lucent Technologies are beginning to pursue the
>industry's next great software challenge: universal virtual machines


>[I predict they'll all soon be crying "UNCOL" -Pardo]


You'd think they'd at least mention UNCOL. Is history repeating itself,
this time as farce?


Surely we've made some progress in emulation and binary translation
technlogy


Fact is, we already have a universal virtual machine in the x86. Any
serious architecture has to be able to emulate this. That includes the
recent work from intel.
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Alex Colvin
alex.colvin@dartmouth.edu
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