Because so many users have asked for an operating system of even greater capability than VM, IBM has announced the Virtual Universe Operating System - OS/VU.
Running under OS/VU, the individual user appears to have not merely his own machine, but an entire universe, in which he can set up and take down his own programs, data sets, computers, networks, personnel, and planetary systems. He need only specify the universe he desires, and the OS/VU system generation program (SYS1.GOD) does the rest.
Naturally, the user must have attained a certain degree of sophistication in the data processing field if an efficient utilization of OS/VU is to be achieved. Frequent calls to non-resident galaxies, for instance, can lead to unexpected delays in the execution of a job. Although IBM, through its wholly owned subsidiary, the United States, is working on a program to upgrade the speed of light and thus reduce the overhead of extraterrestrial and metadimentional paging, users must be careful for the present to stay within the laws of physics. IBM must charge an additional fee for violations.
OS/VU will run on any IBM 3803033N, N=2,3,5,..., equipped with warp. Rental is twenty billion dollars per CPU/nanosecond.
Users should be aware that IBM plans to migrate all existing systems and hardware to OS/VU as soon as our engineers effect an output that is (conceptually) error-free. This will give us a base to develop an even more powerful operating system, target date 2001, designated Virtual Reality. OS/VR is planned to enable the user to migrate totally unreal universes, with the exception of one program status word, one 220V standard wall plug, and his checkbook.
If you have any questions or comments regarding this new announcement, please contact your IBM sales representative.
Last update: Lee Ann Goldstein January 1979