It’s been a very long time in the mists of my memory that someone mentioned 
cp/67 cms. I think it ran on a 360/40 at New York Psychic Center.
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> On Jun 20, 2026, at 07:37, Jay Maynard 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> CP/67 won't run on a 370. The virtual memory implementation is different
> enough to keep it from running. I don't know if CP/67's CMS will run on a
> bare 370, though it will run under VM/370, so maybe...
> 
> If it'll run on a bare 370, it should run on a P/370.
> 
>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2026 at 10:14 PM Farley, Peter <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Just out of pure curiosity, I wonder if there are any surviving copies of
>> that “bare metal” CMS system and its documentation outside of IBM deep
>> archives (i.e., gathering dust at Iron Mountain).
>> 
>> It would be interesting to bring it up under S/370 emulation or on a
>> surviving P370 system if anyone has one that’s still operational, just to
>> see it work, but probably also somewhat frustrating without the supporting
>> documentation.
>> 
>> Peter
>> 
>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf
>> Of Mark S Waterbury
>> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2026 10:39 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: GC20-1757 - IBM Virtual Machine Facility/370 Features
>> Supplement
>> 
>> 
>> The original "CMS" (Cambridge Monitor System) of CP-67 could run on a
>> "bare" machine, and this was used to do the initial "SYSGEN" of CP-67, e.g.
>> to specify the I/O configuration etc. to install CP-67 on an IBM S/360
>> model 67.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> By the time VM/370 became available in late 1972 or early 1973, the VM
>> version of "CMS" (Conversational Monitor System) could no longer run on any
>> "bare" machine as it relied on a number of CP services provided via the
>> DIAGnose instruction (aka. the "hypervisor call" in today's lingo.)
>> 
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