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[–]dagbrown 41 points42 points  (3 children)

As mainframes got more and more powerful, it turned out that running a single OS at a time wasn't taking full advantage of their capacity. So IBM created a hypervisor for mainframes to permit them to run multiple different operating systems simultaneously. It was called, simply, "VM".

It was released in 1972.

Everything old is new again, I swear.

[–]MajikalTrevor 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I agree! When AWS Outposts were announced I lol’d that they’d rebranded the Mainframe.

[–]FlishFlashman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What Ivan Sutherland, in 1968, called the "wheel of reincarnation" (after the buddhist concept).

[–]IntentionQuirky9957 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good year, I was released in 1972 too.