[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[John Dallman]

In article <uj62he$ema$1 at reader2.panix.com>,
cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) wrote:

> In article <1f49caa7-6d19-4946-a433-3e85492b3e02n at googlegroups.com>,
> Jake Hamby (Solid State Jake) <jake.hamby at gmail.com> wrote:
> . . . I should also mention z/VM,
> >which is IBM's OS dedicated to running transactions (as opposed
> >to z/OS, which is more general-purpose). z/VM is what all the
> >airlines and Visa credit card transactions run on.
> 
> I find this surprising.  z/VM is a hypervisor, mostly for
> running VMs: users either log into a VM running under z/VM
> or boot CMS (a small single-user operating system) that they
> interact with.

I think Jake means TPF, a specialised transaction-processing OS, which
seems to verge on being a RTOS. 

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_Processing_Facility>



John