Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site proper.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amd70!dual!proper!mickey
From: mickey@proper.UUCP (Michael Thompson)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: New (improved) IBM o.s.
Message-ID: <1197@proper.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-May-84 14:51:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: proper.1197
Posted: Mon May  7 14:51:42 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 12-May-84 07:11:39 EDT
Organization: Proper UNIX, San Leandro, CA
Lines: 50

.
IBM Data Processing Division
Programming Announcement
April 1, 1984

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, personel, 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  In conjunction with OS/VU, all system utilities have been
replaced by one program (IEHPROPHET) which will reside in SYS1.MESSIAH.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 parameters or control cards as it knows what you want it to
do when it is executed.

"Naturally, the user must have attained a certain degree of sophistocation
in the data processing field if an efficient utilization of OS/VU is to
be achieved.  Frequent calls to nonresident 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 extraterrestrial
and meta-dimensional 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 dollars 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 case to develop an even
more powerful operating system, target date 2001, designated 'Virtual Reality'.
OS/VR is planned to enable the users 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 arrangement of multisensory
total records of successive moments of now will be established.  It's name
will be SYS1.EST."


				<Not sure who is original author>

				Michael Thompson