Mark Bixby wrote:
>
> Trudeau, James L writes:
> > Like someone already mentioned, IBM has been at that for years.
> > I used to work with it on a 4041(?) ahem....mainframe. They call
> > it VM (virtual machine). One processor multiple OS's running under
> > the virtual machine. They (IBM) had devloped it for in house use
> > until some smarty britches said "Let's sell it". It wasn't all that
> > popular when I was working with it in '85-'86 but I understand it grew
> > in popularity later. Don't know where it stands now. Much as I hate to
> > admit it, it was pretty slick.
>
> We ran VM/CMS/VS1/MVS here up until 1989 to do all of our student
> administrative functions as well as student programming lab work [...]
> I agree with James; VM was rather nifty.
And I should point out that HP3000-L started it's life on VM/CMS (you
may recall the original home on utcvm.utc.edu) and was only moved to
raven about 2.5 years ago (or was it 3.5?). Listserv likewise began
life on VM/CMS and was later ported to Unix and NT.
Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>