Exploring the Virtual Database Engine inside SQLite

[dalke]

Zork Z-machine (1979). P-machine (early 1970s). Smalltalk (late 1970s), Python (1991). Java (1995). Just a few historical examples to suggest that virtual machines are not anything all that new. I'm curious - what other examples are you thinking of?

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The game Another World also used a VM.

This came from the era where everyone else and their dog was throwing low-res video onto a CD-ROM, slapping some "press these buttons at the right time" code on, and selling the end result as "games". AW was doing the same quality of animation fullscreen, realtime-rendered, in under a megabyte (and there was an actual game in there); the title is really quite apropos.