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CP-67/CMS Dead

CP-67/CMS
KindOperating system
Appeared1967
StatusDead
CreatorIBM Cambridge Scientific Center
FamilyVM
PlatformSystem/360-67
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

The first virtual machine hypervisor — one 360 became many virtual 360s, each running its own OS; z/VM's direct ancestor and the concept the cloud was built on.

Succeeded by z/VM
Ran on IBM System/360
Created by IBM
Descendants z/VM

CP-67 was IBM's first virtual-machine system — the 1967 pairing of the Cambridge Scientific Center's CP monitor with the modified S/360-67, the first machine with hardware address translation.\n\nIts descendent VM/CMS made 'each user their own machine' practical — and proved a machine could run multiple OSes simultaneously, the idea that defines modern virtualization.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP-67