Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!wjh12!talcott!harvard!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Re: VM/370 Security (and performance) Message-ID: <986@opus.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 01:08:18 EST Article-I.D.: opus.986 Posted: Wed Dec 19 01:08:18 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 22-Dec-84 01:22:52 EST References: <1539@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <974@opus.UUCP> <522@cygnet.CYGNETSYSTEMS> Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 14 > > I'm grateful to the colleague who finally gave the most reasonable > > explanation of VM to me: IBM couldn't figure out how to build a multi-user > > shared system, so they found something that would let single-user systems > > battle it out in a machine. > > The way I heard it, VM came into being to fill a need within IBM: OK, OK--I (>>) was being just a teeeeeny bit facetious, and somewhat unfair, too. Specifically, VM was not developed within IBM, though I suppose they should get credit for eventually coming around to making it a product. -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile.