Re: time-sharing history, Privilege Levels Below User

According to Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid>:

There's no need to make up silly stories like this ...

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No need to take my word for it. Bitsavers added issues of a magazine
called “Mainframe” a few months back. I took the trouble to read the first
one--it’s all about IBM, as though other “mainframe” machines didn’t
exist. There’s a description of the background to CP/CMS (later VM/CMS)
there.

I see Mainframe Journal, with the earliest issue being Jul/Aug 1988.  Is
that it?  I don't see anything in the ToC that looks like a VM overview.

In any event, I'd find the second article I linked to, the VM history
written by IBMers who were there, more credible than some random third
party magazine. CMS really was written at the same time as CP, and
they always intended them to work together as a time-sharing system.

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