That, and the re-use of abbreviations. Like VM for example: Is it Virtual Memory, Virtual Machine, or Virtual Machine? Distinguishing Virtual Memory from the o

That, and the re-use of abbreviations. Like VM for example: Is it Virtual Memory, Virtual Machine, or Virtual Machine? Distinguishing Virtual Memory from the other two is easy, but is a Virtual Machine a bytecode interpreter like the JVM or a hypervisor like IBM's VM or Xen? You might well have to think hard about the VM settings you use for a VM that runs on a VM.