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THE PERSONAL COMPUTER IN A VM ENVIRONMENT

R. C. Heterick, Jr.

Design Automation Laboratory THE PC IN A VM ENVIRONMENT
Cowgill Hall
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia 24061

THE OPPORTUNITY
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c..., Around the turn of the ce"ntury, a very clever English physicist,
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Clerk Maxwell, suggest.ed a way to beat the Second Law of Thermody-
VM System Management namics. The Second Law has to do with entropy - the measu re of the
unavailability of useful energy in a system and its increase with time
B584 when the system is left to fend for itself. Maxwell said, in effect (this
is a very liberal paraphrase):