Islands of Britain (TV series) Islands of Britain (TV series) Islands of Britain is a 2009 documentary series, filmed over the summers of 2008 and 2009, hosted by Martin Clunes, which visited a number of the islands that lie off the coast of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as well as the Channel Islands. Visited Muckle Flugga, Forewick Holm, and Unst in the Shetland Islands then Lewis and Harris, Eigg and Barra in the Outer Hebrides. Visited Piel Island in Cumbria, Islay in the Inner Hebrides, the Isle of Man, and Rathlin off the coast of Northern Ireland. Visited Guernsey and Sark in the Channel
SIMMON and delay I/O events, these would appear to the guest program as happening unnaturally quickly. Programs under test -- so-called "guest programs" -- had to be capable of stand-alone operation on the bare hardware. SIMMON provided services for the test tools, but not for the guest. These were some of the programs that had been tested using SIMMON: SIMMON SIMMON (SIMulation MONitor) was a proprietary software testing system developed in the late 1960s in the IBM Product Test Laboratory, then at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. It was designed for the then-new line of System/360 computers as a vehicle for testing the software