On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 4:58 PM Gabe Goldberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > From Melinda Varian's masterful paper/presentation, "VM AND THE VM > COMMUNITY: Past, Present, and Future" > > https://www.leeandmelindavarian.com/Melinda/neuvm.pdf > > ...there's this: > > By this time, VM was spreading rapidly, and education of new VM system > programmers was > becoming a problem. One important tool that helped the new VMers get “up to > speed” rapidly > was the excellent Virtual Machine Facility/370 Features Supplement, which was > released in > January of 1974, and was, in my view, the best manual IBM ever published. The > author was > Barbara McCullough. > > --- > > As a long-time VMer, this was always a favorite publication, valuable > reference for VM history and evolution, useful for preparing presentations, > and understanding which VM versions did what. Unfortunately, IBM stopped > updating it along with VM. I'm curious about your request -- running VM/370?
Something with this much praise should be preserved digitally. I asked Melinda but her documents were donated to Living Computer Museum and nobody knows what happened to everything after Paul Allen died and the family scuttled everything. > Kevin Bowling<[email protected]>: > > Does anyone happen to have this, either a virtual or physical copy? > GC20-1757 - IBM Virtual Machine Facility/370 Features Supplement > > -- > Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. [email protected] > 3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 204-0433 > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gabegold > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
