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File No. 8370-20
Order No. GC20-1800-4
IBM Virtual Machine
Facility/370 :
Systems Introd uction
Release 2 PlC 13
This publication introduces VM/370, and defines the
minimum equipment configuration necessary to
execute it. It is intended for anyone who is interested
in VM/370. However, the reader should have a basic
understanding of IBM data processing.
VM/370 (Virtual Machine Facility/370) is an operating
system that manages the resources of a single System/370
computer so that multiple computing systems (virtual
machines) appear to exist. VM/370 consists of a Control
Program (CP), which manages the real computer, a
Conversational Monitor System (CMS), which is a
general-purpose conversational time-sharing system that
executes in a virtual machine, and a Remote Spooling
Communications Subsystem (RSCS), which spools files to
and from geographically remote locations.
The first section of the publication is an introduction;
it describes what VM/370 can do. The second, third,
and fourth sections describe the Control Program,
Conversational Monitor System, and Remote Spooling
Communications Subsystem, respectively. The appendixes
include information about Recovery Management Support,
system requirements, supported language processors and
emulators, compatibility of VM/370 with CP-67/CMS, and
VM/370-related publications for CMS users.
This publication is a prerequisite for the VM/370 system
library.
GC20-1800-4, Page "odified by TNL GN20-2657, March 31, 1975
This is a major revision of GC20-1800-2 and makes that edition and
Technical Newsletter GN20-2638, as well as GC20-1800-3, obsolete. This
edition, together with Technical Newsletter GN20-2657, dated March 31,
1975, corresponds to ~glg~2g l f1