Formal requirements for virtualizable third generation architectures

  • Authors:
  • Gerald J. Popek;Robert P. Goldberg

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Calfifornia, Los Angeles;Harvard Univ., and Honeywell Information Systems Waltham, MA

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1974

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Abstract

Virtual machine systems have been implemented on a limited number of third generation computer systems, e.g. CP-67 on the IBM 360/67. From previous empirical studies, it is known that certain third generation computer systems, e.g. the DEC PDP-10, cannot support a virtual machine system. In this paper, model of a third-generation-like computer system is developed. Formal techniques are used to derive precise sufficient conditions to test whether such an architecture can support virtual machines.