On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Phil Payne wrote: > > I found it interesting that he wrote about CP/40. That was the first > > example of a 360-style operating system using virtual memory with the > > equivalent of modern TLBs. [It had been done on other architectures.] The > > hardware was a one-of created for the Cambridge Scientific Center > > (Mass). And CP/67 was hosted virtually, and CP/67 begat VM/370, and VM/370 > > begat ..... > > I would like to shake the hand of the guy who came up with 'Conversational'. > > -- > Phil Payne > http://www.isham-research.com > +44 7785 302 803 > +49 173 6242039 > It was originally Cambridge Monitor System and became Converstation MS in VM/370. There was a Yorktown Monitor System, which leaked EXEC2 into CMS.
This reads like those history of rock bands, doesn't it? And the ideas in VM/CMS didn't arise in a void. Compatible Time Sharing System ran on high end 707X hardware (IBM second generation). I remember seeing a list of commands, like LISTFILE, and the outputs looked almost identical in form. The virual hardware had been presaged by the Atlas computer over in England years before. john alvord
