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Subject: Visi-On
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Date: Sun, 7-Aug-83 18:00:00 EDT
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From:  William "Chops" Westfield <BillW @ SRI-KL>

Just how much of a "virtual machine" is provided by Visi-On?
Normally, when someone mentions a virtual machine, I envision
something like Smalltalk, where object code is transporable from
machine to machine, and the underlying "engine" ends up interpreting
byte codes or some such.  However, from the general tone of your
message, I got the impression that Visi-On provides more of an
operating system type environment - You have a set of system calls
that are callable from many languages, and are present on all
machines.  Sort of like Unix, which is the only major operating system
that I can think of that runs on a bunch of different hardware.

Bill W