> Just for my curiousity. Was CP-67 the first "virtualization engine"
ever
> produced? Or did some other company have this type of ability before
IBM
> did it?

See Melinda Varian's "VM: Past Present and Future" paper for all the
gory details from the IBM perspective. 

There were efforts at DEC with the PDP-8 OS-8 system to do some device
virtualization, but not the true simulation of CP. Probably the next
really serious virtual machine implementation was the p-System at UCSD. 

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