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, switching to a 3000-based
administrative package that an incoming MIS director imported from his
previous college district.

I agree with James; VM was rather nifty.
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