October 2015
Intermediate to advanced
563 pages
15h 32m
English
It has been found useful in many installations to use an operating system to simulate the existence of several machines on a single physical set of hardware. The IBM VM/370 operating system is one example. This technique allows an installation to multiprogram several different operating systems (or different versions of the same operating system) on a single physical machine. The dynamic-address-translation hardware allows such a simulator to be efficient enough to be used, in many cases, in production mode.
—Architecture of the IBM System/370, Communications of the ACM, January 1978,Richard Case and Adris Padegs
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