Program Product Announcement
Virtual Universe Operating
System (OS/VU)
5799-ZAP
Highlights for OS/VU:
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 and 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In conjunction with OS/VU, all system utilities have been replaced by one program (IEHPROPHET) which will reside in SYS1.MESSIAH.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 sophistica- tion in the data processing field if an efficient utilitzation 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 metadimensional paging, users must be careful for the present to stay within the laws of physics. IBM must charge an additional fee for violations.
Systems assurance: OS/VU requires a systems assurance review prior to AAS order entry. S.A. may be waived upon concurrence from Sir Isaac Newton, Underground Consultant Herman Hollerith, S.P.D., and Bob Einstein Lancaster, Virtual SE.
Marketing support: Nationwide support of OS/VU will be provided by the Specialist Unit of the Detroit Commercial Branch with back up to be provided by the Region 8 Market Support Center.
Hardware configuration: OS/VU will run on any IBM X0XX equipped with Extended WARP feature.
Planned availability: 18 BLEAMS.
Monthly charge: Rental is twenty million dollars per CPU nanosecond. Credit cards accepted: Diners Club.
Testing period: Unlimited testing allowance for OS/VU is available in the following locations:
Uganda
Nicaragua
Uranus (allow approximately 68 years travel time one way and watch out for Skylab.)
CPU's not provided. B.Y.O.
Distribution medium: 12 3350's, or 1 3850 MSS.
Pre-Announcements:
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. It's name will be SYS1.est.
For more information, contact your IBM data processing representative.
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