VM/370

E244635

VM/370 is IBM's pioneering virtual machine operating system that allowed multiple independent OS environments to run concurrently on System/370 mainframe hardware.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
VM/370 canonical 6
VM/XA 1
Virtual Machine Facility/370 1

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf IBM mainframe operating system
operating system
virtual machine monitor
abbreviationOf VM/370 self-linksurface differs
surface form: Virtual Machine Facility/370
announcedBy IBM
architecture virtual machine architecture
basedOn CP-67
category IBM VM family
surface form: IBM virtualization technology

mainframe virtualization
component Control Program (CP)
surface form: Control Program

Conversational Monitor System (CMS)
surface form: Conversational Monitor System
designGoal efficient sharing of mainframe resources
isolation between virtual machines
developer IBM
IBM Cambridge Scientific Center
enables multiple concurrent virtual machines
time-sharing of System/370 hardware
feature debugging and instrumentation facilities for guest OSes
full virtualization of System/370 hardware
interactive time-sharing via CMS
spooling
virtual card readers and punches
virtual disks (minidisks)
virtual printers
influenced IBM VM family
modern hypervisors
virtualization research
introduced early 1970s
notableFor allowing multiple independent OS environments to run concurrently on System/370 hardware
pioneering commercial virtual machine operating system
predecessor CP/CMS
provides virtual 370 instruction set to guests
runsOn IBM System/370
successor IBM VM family
surface form: VM/ESA

z/VM
surface form: VM/SP

z/VM
surface form: VM/XA

z/VM
supports CMS
DOS/VS
MVS
OS/360
multiple guest operating systems
supportsHardware IBM System/370 virtual memory models
supportsMode multi-user guest operating system virtual machine
single-user CMS virtual machine

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z/VM predecessor VM/370
IBM 3033 operatingSystem VM/370
IBM 168 operatingSystem VM/370
IBM 3081 operatingSystem VM/370
IBM 3090 runsOperatingSystem VM/370
this entity surface form: VM/XA
VM/370 abbreviationOf VM/370 self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Virtual Machine Facility/370
System R operatingSystem VM/370