Patrick Elliott wrote:
> 
> Point being. Its gotten damn blurry. Now you can have a physical
> machine, running a simple OS, which runs an application that simulates a
> second machine, running a complex OS, which is running a sim of a much
> simpler machine, which is running a very simple OS, which is running
> DOSBOX, which simulates "both" the machine *and* the OS. In theory, you
> could then run Windows 3.1 on that, and run some ancient copy of DOSBOX
> inside that, and... Its gets damn insane. Ten years ago, people could
> have given you a clear and concise, "Yep, that is, and that isn't."
> Now... Who the hell knows in some cases. lol
> 

And to make it even more unclear, you can run bunch of these "piles"
simultaneously on that single physical machine. Just add virtualization
layer, such as Xen/HyperV/ESX :).

-Aero

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