Patrick Mulvany wrote:
Over the past few years I have been putting together a history timeline of
operating systems. This is a very large task especially as a lot of the
information about the early operating systems is quickly disappearing.
A major part of this is the IBMs S/360 family of hardware and the operating
systems that have running on it over the years.
http://www.oshistory.net/metadot/index.pl?id=2195
I have quite a lot of information on the releases of :-
MVS - Mainly missing clarification of the 1960-1972 period
http://www.oshistory.net/metadot/index.pl?id=2238;isa=Category;op=show
VM - Missing information prior to 1987
http://www.oshistory.net/metadot/index.pl?id=2236;isa=Category;op=show
VSE - Missing very early history DOS/VSE and before. Not sure if this is
the
same DOS and TOS as in the MVS history.
http://www.oshistory.net/metadot/index.pl?id=2237;isa=Category;op=show
TPF - Almost completely missig ACP
http://www.oshistory.net/metadot/index.pl?id=2229;isa=Category;op=show
All information welcome, especially corrections, ommisions and
clarifications of the early history of S/360 series.
lots of vm history in melinda's share paper: VM and the VM Community: Past,
Present, and Future ...
http://www.princeton.edu/~melinda
old email that has been posted/archived ... some of which relates to vm
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html
for instance Melinda's paper talks about TSM (renamed ADSM) originating as
CMSBACK starting in 1983. However, by 1983, cmsback was already into its 3rd or
4th version ... old email about CMSBACK ... predating 1983
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#cmsback
In fact, the two people mentioned for CMSBACK in Melissa's paper weren't even
hired at the time CMSBACK was originally done.
another source of VM historical information is the VMSHARE archive
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
on online VM related online computer conferencing originated in the mid-70s
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
offered as a SHARE service by Tymshare corporation. Tymshare was a commercial
vm370-based online timesharing service bureau ... misc. past posts mentioning
online vm370-based commercial timesharing service operations
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#timeshare
also some old email specifically mentioning vmshare
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vmshare
if you want a little topic drift ... lots of past posts mentioning science
center
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
which is where the original virtual machine operating system originated (cp67,
precursor to vm370).
it is also where GML was invented ... precursor to SGML and antecedent to HTML,
XML, etc
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#sgml
and also where the internal network originated ... lots of past posts observing
that the internal network was larger than the arpanet/internet from just about
the beginning until sometime mid-85
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
and a derivative of the internal networking software was also used for
BITNET/EARN
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
misc. old email with some mention of VNET
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vnet
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