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> My point is more that, colloquially, people usually refer to a VM in the sense of a guest operating within a Hypervisor.

Python, Ruby, Java, and JavaScript want a word with you. Bytecode VMs being called just 'VMs' colloquially is extremely common.



Yeah, I mean, ultimately my argument is that devs are too lazy to understand documentation, but of course I don't consider myself one of those, so I can't defend the claim that my biased and imaginary sample of devs understands VMs in the same way as your sample.

That said, I will stand by the argument that most people (myself included) are too lazy to understand documentation.




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