[FRIAM] ABM - OO

[Prof David West]

mis-spelling in previous email --  Noury Bouraqadi    
<bouraqadi at ensm-douai.fr>


On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 14:02:52 -0600, "Marcus G. Daniels"
<marcus at snoutfarm.com> said:
> Prof David West wrote:
> > Objects should be able to interact with bare hardware and not rely on OS
> > or other environments - like the Smalltalk image.
> >   
> With the resurgence of virtualized instruction sets, e.g. Java and .NET, 
> and good hardware/software support via VMware, Parallels, KVM, and Xen, 
> perhaps we can hope to see more high performance implementations of OOP 
> as it was meant to be..  The Right Thing running fast bare on the 
> hardware (almost).   Just bought 16 GB of RAM for less than $2k.  
> 
> On a related topic, check out VMware Workstation 6 which now has trace 
> and replay.   No more guessing how to reproduce conditions that led to a 
> model (or whatever) getting in to a weird state.   Just back up!
> 
> 
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