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Are you the inventor of all virtualization we know today or VPS only?

• justincormack 12y ago
  Virtualization is much older than that - it was invented in the late 1960s, I believe at IBM.
  • chrisper 12y ago
    Seems like IBM was innovative back then. What happened?
    • sumedh 12y ago
      Bureaucracy.
• rsync 12y ago
  No, no. In fact, I wouldn't say that I invented anything at all. It was just the combination of off the shelf items (FreeBSD, jail, colocated servers, various management programs we wrote) that was unique at the time. In 2001 a colo'd server could be very, very expensive. I think our starting price for a "server instance" was $65/mo and people were ecstatic about that.