[Info-vax] vtAlpha and marketing bullshit

[ChrisQ]

On 12/19/11 21:43, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> In article<mn.9b577dbca3033f0b.104627 at invalid.skynet.be>, Marc Van Dyck
> <marc.gr.vandyck at invalid.skynet.be>  writes:
>
>> I was also going to say something along this. For me, the fact that
>> there is indeed a linux kernel as bottom layer seemed obvious, and
>> I don't care the least bit, be it SuSe or whatever else. The fact is,
>> it's embedded, tested as one product, does not need to be feed with
>> patches every few weeks, and is supported as one product, so no
>> ping-pong between two suppliers who will both pretend that the fault
>> is at the other side. After all, if they have re-used a Linux kernel,
>> that means they have been able to dedicate more effort on the emulator
>> side, and that's what is important.
>
> Something like Apple?
>

Sweet-16 ?, Wozniac's 16 bit virtual machine in the Apple II rom. That's
what I read from the initial description, which I assumed would load, with
a boot loader, and start running before the first block of vms.

Haven't really thought about all the possible gotchas, but that seems like
the way to maximise speed, though it obviously isn't that trivial a task...

Regards,

Chris