From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net   
      
   In article ,   
   Rich Alderson   wrote:   
   >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.   
      
   Thanks, Rich.  I was hoping Varian might pin down the date of   
   that change.  She does mention that the initial name was   
   "Cambridge Monitor System", and on page 57 says that,'VM/370 was   
   announced with two components, CP, the "Control Program", and   
   CMS, which was now to be called the "Conversational Monitor   
   System".'   
      
   So it seems that the name stuck throughout the lifetime of CP on   
   the 360.   
      
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