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VM is one of those seminal operating systems like MULTICS and ITS. There is a great video on some of the folly going on at IBM during its last really hurrah as an end user environment: https://archive.org/details/AStrategicPointOfViewForVm

It's worth considering that this was one of the most common ways people would do large scale computing well into the era of UNIX and PCs.

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I just spent an hour and a half watching this talk and it was surprisingly interesting! As a portal to a different world, as a bit of early '90s kitsch, as an advanced echo of the coming of the cloud, and as a vision of a future that never was.