A virtual operating system

Authors:
Dennis E. Hall;Deborah K. Scherrer;Joseph S. Sventek
Affiliations:
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA;Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA;Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA
Venue:
Communications of the ACM
Year:
1980

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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.