A virtual operating system
- 1 September 1980
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 23 (9) , 495-502
- https://doi.org/10.1145/359007.359010
Abstract
Moving to a new system is costly and error-prone. The problem can be reduced through use of a virtual operating system that disentangles computing environments from their underlying operating systems. The authors report on their successful experience in doing this and achieving inter-system uniformity at all three levels of user interface: virtual machine, utilities, and command language.Keywords
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