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If "abstracting the dependency on the underlying hardware" is the criterium for a VM, then PDF readers are VMs, and even some word processors -- in fact, it could be said that anything that transports commands to OS peripheral interfaces is a VM.

For me, being in a purist mood, a VM has to effectively sidestep the underlying OS of the computer, by running files on a different OS on top of the underlying OS.

Do C# and Java do this?  Not so far as I know, they don't; they may abstract things a tiny bit further than a PDF reader does, but it's still only abstraction.

They are programs that allow you to open, run, and use certain files.

Notepad does that much, for Heaven's sake!

So stop calling spades shovels, and the "problem" highlighted by the article disappears.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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