Re: micro-virtualization

"Karp, Alan H" <[email protected]> Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:02:23 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.e.general
Message-ID <8AD823089998C849A832D86972E69CD53DB8B78E@G9W0731.americas.hpqcorp.net>
> > Yet we did a pretty good job with Polaris
> (http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Alan_Karp/polaris/index.html).
> 
> "In fact, one HP executive used a pre-Alpha version of Polaris for
> three days without knowing it was on his machine."
> 
> uh, so it got installed via trojan? ;-)

Actually, he knew what we were up to.  We had scheduled a time for training, but he got back early from a business trip.  At the appointed time he asked when we were putting our software on his machine.

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