adam@utcs.UUCP (Adam R. Iles) (08/06/85)
This help is copied from an IBM announcement dated January 30,1979.
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 OS/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,
system networks, personnel, and planetary systems. He need only
specify the universe he desires, and the OS/VU system generation
program (IEHGOD) does the rest. This program will reside in
SYS1.GODLIB. The minimum time for this function is 6 days of
activity and 1 day of review. In conjunction with OS/VU, all
system utilities have been replaced by one program (IEHPROPHET)
which will reside in SYS1.MESSIAH. This program has no parms or
control cards as it knows what you want to do when it is executed.
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, for instance, can 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 extraterrrestrial
and metadimensional paging, users must be careful for the present
to stay within the laws of physics. IBM must charge an additional
fee for violations.
OS/VU will run on any IBM x0xx equipped with Extended WARP
Feature. Rental is twenty million dallars per cpu/nanosecond.
Users should be aware that IBM plans to migrate all existing
systems and hardware to OS/VU as soon as our engineers effect one
output that is (conceptually) error-free. This will give us a
base to develop an even more powerful operating system, target
date 2001, designated "Virtual Reality". OS/VR is planned to
enable the user to migrate to totally unreal universes. To aid
the user in identifying the difference a linear arrangement of
multisensory total records of successive moments of now will be
established. It's name will be SYS1.est.
For more information, contact your IBM data processing representive.
--
... and Pray that there's intellegent life somewhere up in space
because there's bugger all down here on earth.
-Monty Python (The Meaning of Life)
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Adam R. Iles:
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