And note: Linux is quite horrible in most regards as a desktop OS which doesn't stop me using it as such, or even installing it on the machines of the clueless as a virus-proof alternative to Windowsbut it's still the only system making real inroads on the desktop. Several GUIs, including early versions of X, were also in use. What VMWare actually does is it isolates a section of hard drive appears as a regular file in Linux and isolates sections of memory I've had up to MB allocated and runs a 'virtual machine' which runs through a 'BIOS' and can do pretty much everything that another computer can do, including running Windows 98 Games! But the underlying concepts weren't new, even at the time: message passing, multitasking, GUIs, hardware acceleration, etc. Hybe mystery boxįor those of you who don't know, VMWare [vmware.
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