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I understand Parallels was formed by a bunch of Russian hackers who were originally contracted to make a huge bank's OS/2-based software system run on new compu

by i336_ 11y ago

I understand Parallels was formed by a bunch of Russian hackers who were originally contracted to make a huge bank's OS/2-based software system run on new computers without OS/2 drivers. The big issue was that OS/2's kernel operated in Ring 0, and no existing virtualization/emulation systems supported the relevant CPU instructions. I wonder if that bank is still running on OS/2... :P

PhantomGremlin 11y ago
I heard that Parallels got a head start by, ahem, inheriting a substantial amount of code from VMware. It's something I read online a while ago but haven't been able to google any confirmation to. Anybody know anything they're willing to share publicly?