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|===>> Is a new MAINFRAME O/S in the works at IBM ?!?!
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Mail from YORKTOWN received 11-Dec-79 23:33:43-EST
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Date: 11 Dec 1979 2333-EST
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From: Watson at YORKTOWN (T. J. Watson, Jr.)
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Subject: new operating system
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Data Processing Division Date: January 30, 1979
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PROGRAMMING ANNOUNCEMENT
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New Operating System
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Because so many users have asked for an operating system of even greater
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capability than VM, IBM announces the Virtual Universe Operating System
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OS/VU.
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Running under OS/VU, the individual user appears to have not merely a
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machine of his own, but an entire universe of his own, in which he can
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set up and take down his own programs, data sets, systems networks,
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personnel, and planetary systems. He need only specify the universe he
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desires, and the OS/VU system generation program (IEHGOD) does the rest.
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This program will reside in SYS1.GODLIB. The minimum time for this
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function is 6 days of activity and 1 day of review. In conjunction with
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OS/VU, all system utilities have been replaced by one program
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(IEHPROPHET) which will reside in SYS1.MESSIAH. This program has no
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parms or control cards as it knows what you want to do when it is
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executed.
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Naturally, the user must have attained a certain degree of
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sophistication in the data processing field if an efficient utilization
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of OS/VU is to be achieved. Frequent calls to non-resident galaxies,
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for instance, can lead to unexpected delays in the execution of a job.
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Although IBM, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, The United States, is
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working on a program to upgrade the speed of light and thus reduce the
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overhead of extraterrestrial and metadimensional paging, users must be
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careful for the present to stay within the laws of physics. IBM must
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charge an additional fee for violations.
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OS/VU will run on any IBM x0xx equipped with Extended WARP Feature.
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Rental is twenty million dollars per cpu/nanosecond.
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Microcode assist will be available for all odd-numbered processors
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to allow the use of non-contiguous CPU clock times. This feature will
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be a prerequisite for the implementation of the Rutgers University
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virtual date package.
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Users should be aware that IBM plans to migrate all existing systems and
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hardware to OS/VU as soon as our engineers effect one output that is
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(conceptually) error-free. This will give us a base to develop an even
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more powerful operating system, target date 2001, designated "Virtual
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Reality". OS/VR is planned to enable the user to migrate to totally
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unreal universes. To aid the user in identifying the difference between
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"Virtual Reality" and "Real Reality", a file containing a linear
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arrangement of multisensory total records of successive moments of now
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will be established. Its name will be SYS1.est.
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For more information, contact your IBM data processing representative.
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