An airhacks.fm conversation with Gil Tene (@giltene) about:

starting with hacking adventure games on a VAX-11/780 as a teenager,

building computers and making money in high school,

providing access to Usenet,

early programming experiences with Pascal and C/C++,

moving to Silicon Valley in 1994 and witnessing the rise of Java,

working on fault-tolerant computer systems at Stratus Computer,

co-founding Azul Systems and developing the Vega appliances to virtualize Java applications,

the technical details of how Vega appliances worked by running JVMs on specialized hardware,

the evolution of Azul to focus on pure software solutions such as Zing and supporting openJDK,

Gil's continued involvement in coding and maintaining open-source libraries