Formal Requirements for Virtualizable Third Generation Architectures

The work

AuthorsGerald J. Popek; Robert P. Goldberg
Typearticle
Year1974
Citekeypopek1974formal

Where it appeared

Published inCommunications of the ACM
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Volume17
Issue7
Pages412--421

Identifiers

DOI10.1145/361011.361073

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.

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@article{popek1974formal,
  title        = {Formal Requirements for Virtualizable Third Generation Architectures},
  author       = {Gerald J. Popek and Robert P. Goldberg},
  year         = {1974},
  journal      = {Communications of the ACM},
  volume       = {17},
  number       = {7},
  pages        = {412--421},
  publisher    = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  doi          = {10.1145/361011.361073},
}

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