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VM is one of those seminal operating systems like MULTICS and ITS. There is a great video on some of the folly going on at IBM during its last really hurrah as
by kev009 6y ago
VM is one of those seminal operating systems like MULTICS and ITS. There is a great video on some of the folly going on at IBM during its last really hurrah as an end user environment: https://archive.org/details/AStrategicPointOfViewForVm https://archive.org/details/AStrategicPointOfViewForVm
It's worth considering that this was one of the most common ways people would do large scale computing well into the era of UNIX and PCs.
- twic 6y agoI just spent an hour and a half watching this talk and it was surprisingly interesting! As a portal to a different world, as a bit of early '90s kitsch, as an advanced echo of the coming of the cloud, and as a vision of a future that never was.