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   cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:   
      
   > In article <10ae172$33ukj$1@dont-email.me>,   
   > David Wade   wrote:   
      
   >> I think around the late 1970's IBM included the Shared File System which   
   >> finally allowed several users to have write access to the same file at   
   >> the same time...   
      
   >> .. so yes communications is not a problem.   
      
   > You should tell him that CMS stands for, "Conversational Monitor   
   > System".  VM is all about communications, as most timeshared   
   > systems are.   
      
   Dan, that's actually a retronym.  It was originally called the   
   "Cambridge Monitor System".  I think the renaming occurred when   
   it moved off the modified 360/40 to the 360/67, but I could be   
   hallucinating like an LLM.   
      
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