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]>