Message-ID: <381D9534.F1E4BB9C@attglobal.net> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 08:27:16 -0500 From: David Mandalis Reply-To: dmmanda@attglobal.net To: megami@ML.usagi.org Subject: Re: [Info] Afternoon December Issue 1999 References: <01bf2412$3075c8e0$69f859d8@augusta.amretgrp.com> X-ML-archive: http://www.win.ne.jp/~doi/ML/ Precedence: bulk Brian Welch wrote: > > > NI-DO-HE-GU is, of course, Nidhog, the worm/dragon who lives at the well > named Hvergelmir in Nifelheim, chewing upon the root of Yggdrasil there. If > you make Yggdrasil a computer, then it makes sense for Nidhog to be an > alternate, counterpart computer system. > > More parallels! > > In Mainframe data processing it's called virtual pairs. Interesting, the author thinks that Yggdrasil works under VM (IBM's "Virtual Machine" operating system). I wonder if he thinks Nidhog is VSE-OS (Virtual Storage Architecture) and the Megami system is MVS-OS (Multiple Virtual Systems). Under VM you can run multiple environments within on Physical box. Interesting concept in the computer world, if you kick a real computer you probably will break your foot, if you kick a virtual computer you will only end up with your foot in your mouth. Under VM the virtual machines can talk to each other as if they were separate boxes, but they can share all resources and kinda coexist over one another. Dave M. (Mainframe specialist specializing in conversions from VSE to MVS {turnkey)) and I work in the AMS division of my company. One of these days I will have to talk about the White haired systems Admin. (she wasn't old either) who worked with us on one project ;).