[TUHS] long lived programs

[Steve Nickolas]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2018, Lawrence Stewart wrote:

> Suppose we define a machine architecture not for building hardware, but 
> specifically for itself being easy to emulate?
>
> This is by analogy to para-virtualized device drivers, which are not 
> there to model real devices, but to be easy to support in a virtual 
> machine environment.

I've had an idea to create a sort of idealized VM for running C in (like a 
JVM designed specifically for C) and a full VM-OS type thing as well - but 
I couldn't figure out how to go about implementing it.  Still...sounds 
similar to what you propose, which might not be a bad idea.

-uso.