Virtual Machines, JavaScript and Assembler

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Argues that the web now runs millions of client-side virtual machines alongside hundreds of cloud VMs, shows concrete tools and demos: npm install azure to script deployments, VM Depot with over 400 community Linux images, and spinning up three instances via a CLI slider. Demonstrates a JavaScript x86 emulator running JS Linux and compiling C with TCC in the browser, cites web workers and GC as OS primitives, and claims JavaScript as the assembly language of the web while noting C/C++ → JavaScript compilation.

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" chapters (9)

1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:16Virtual Machines
3. 6:25Backend
4. 10:02Browser
5. 12:08Virtual Machine
6. 14:30JavaScript
7. 17:18Operating Systems
8. 18:43HTML
9. 21:02Brendan Eich

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