NEW IBM OPERATING SYSTEM
Because so many users have asked for an operating system of even
greater capability then VM, IBM announces the Virtual Universe
Operating System -- OS/VU.
Running under OS/VU, the individual users 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 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system utilities have been replaced by one program (IEHPROPHET)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 extraterrestrial and metadimensional pageing, 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 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
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 between "Virtual Reality"
and "Real Reality", a file containing a linear arrangement of
multisensory total records of successive moments of now will be
established. Its name will be SYS1.est.
For more information, contact your IBM data processing
representative.