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Sep 14, 2026 13 min

Virtual Machines Power the Cloud - Computerphile

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The number of virtual machines has swelled due to cloud computing & changes to the X86 processor, but what are Virtual Machines and how do they run legacy software alongside cutting edge code? Derek McAuley explains.Punch Card Programming: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG2M4ttzBnYEncryption and Security Agencies: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWeVOXpTOhkCERN Computing Centre (and mouse farm): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0MgJFGL5jg http://www.facebook.com/computerphilehttps://twitter.com/computer_phileThis video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/nottscomputerComputerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. See the full list of Brady's video projects at: http://bit.ly/bradychannels

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