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From IBM: A New Operating System
New Operating System
Because so many users have asked for an Operating System of
even greater capability than VM, IBM announces the Virtual
Universe Operating System - OS/VU.
Running under VU, the individual user appears to have not
merely a machine of his own, but an entire universe of his own
in which he can set up and take down his own programs, data
sets, systems networks, personnel and planetary systems. He need
only specify the universe he desires and the OS/VU system gen-
eration program (IEHGOD) does the rest. This program will
reside in SYS1.GODLIB. The minimum time for generation is 6 days
of activity and one day of review. In conjunction with OS/VU,
all systems utilities reside in SYS1.MESSIAH. The generation
program has no parameters or control cards as it knows what you
want to do when you execute it.
Naturally, the user must have attained a certain degree of
sophistication in the data processing field if an efficient
utilization of OS/VU is to be achieved; frequent calls to non-
resident galaxies can, for instance, lead to unexpected delays
in the execution of a job. Although IBM, through its wholly
owned subsidiary -- the United States, is working on a program
to upgrade the speed of light and thus reduce the overhead of
extraterrestrial and metadimensional paging, users must be care-
ful, for the present, to stay within the laws of physics; IBM
must charge an additional fee for all violations.
OS/VU will run on any IBM x0xx equipped with the extended
WARP feature. Rental is twenty million dollars per
cpu/nanosecond.
Users should be aware that IBM plans to migrate all exist-
ing systems and hardware to OS/VU as soon as their engineers
effect one output that is (conceptually) error free. This will
give them a base from which to develop an even more powerful OS,
target date 2001, designated 'VIRTUAL REALITY'. OS/VR is planned
in order to allow the user to migrate to totally unreal
universes. To aid the user in identifying the difference between
'VIRTUAL REALITY' and 'REAL REALITY', a file containing a linear
record of multisensory checkpoints of successive moments-of-now
will be established. Its name will be SYS1.EST.
For more information, contact your IBM data processing
representative.
November 26, 1984
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