I noticed that most of the references in preceding posts are to articles and announcements that are 25 to 30 years old.
I heard from a usually-reliable-but-unnamed-source that all work on developing OS/VU was halted some time ago. The problem surfaced when it was first installed, on the hush-hush, at a customer site. The test began, and as soon as the first initiator was started OS/VU attemted to allocate an infinite number of buffers of infinite size so it could quickly cache all available data. It seems that during development in the lab too small a subset of the universe was used for testing, and OS/VU correctly calculated a finite number of buffers of finite size. Since then a skunk-works operation has been established at an unnamed IBM location to develope a VU capable operating system using a much more versatile system as a base. When this system is announced it will be called vuVM and will run on the jointly announced new processor family, the zINFINITY. Remember, you heard it her first! Good Luck! Dennis VM... When reality just isn't enough. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting
