CFOG's PIP, April 1987, Volume 5 No. 6, Whole No. 54, page 8

IBM Announces New Operating System

PROGRAMMING ANOUNCEMENT

From:	IBM Information Systems Group National Accounts Division National Marketing Division
Re:	New Operating System OS/VU: Product Number 5748-2001

Because so many users have asked for an operating system of even greater capability than VM/370, 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 or take down his own programs, data sets, system networks, personnel, and planetary systems. He needs 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 In conjunction with OS/VU, all system utilities have been replaced by one program (IEHPROPHET) which will reside in SYS1.MESSIAH.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 subsidary, the United States, is working on a program to upgrade the speed of light and thus reduce the overhead of extraterrestial and metadimensional paging, users must be careful for the present to stay within the laws of physucs. IBM must charge an additional fee for violations.

OS/VU will run on any IBM 90xx equipped with Extended WARP assist. Rental for this feature 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 and virtually) 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.