Field Note #81. On "Virtual Machines and Related Terms"
Sources:
(1) Moralis, "EVM Explained," avail. online (July 2021)
(2) Docker Docs: https://docs.docker.com/get-started/overview/
(3) Ethereum Book: https://github.com/ethereumbook/ethereumbook/tree/first_edition_first_print)
It's easy to gloss over terms that show up repeatedly in subject matter discourse. Resisting that tendency today.
(See also: Field Note 63 re: "Halting Problem" and Field Note 70 re: "Turing Completeness")
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