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by msla 1207 days ago
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.