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I B M D a t a P r o c e s s i n g D i v i s i o n
Programming Announcement
New Operating System (5781-WOW)
Due to the fact that so many users have asked for an operating system of even greater capability than VM, IBM announces the Virtual Universe Operating System - OS/VU.
Running under OS/VU, the individual user appears to have not merely a machine of his own, but an entire universe of his own, in which he can set up and take down his own programs, data sets, system networks, personnel, and planetary systems. He need only specify the universe he desires, and the OS/VU system generation program (IEHGOD) does the rest. This program will reside in SYS1.GODLIB. The minimum time for this function is 6 days of activity and 1 day of rest and review. In conjunction with OS/VU, all system utilities have been replaced by one program (IEHPROPHET) which will reside in SYS1.MESSIAH. This program has no parms or control cards as it knows what you want to do when it is executed.
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 metadimensional 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 x0xx equipped with Extended WARP Feature. Rental is twenty million 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 one output that is (conceptually) error-free. This will give us a base to develop an even more powerful operation system, target date 2001, designated " Virtual Reality". OS/VR is planned to enable the user to migrate to totally unreal universes. To aid the user in identifying the difference between "Virtual Reality" and "Real Reality", a file containing a linear arrangement of multisensory total records of successive moments of now will be established. It's name will be SYS1.est.
For more information, contact your IBM Data Processing Representative.
The items below were selected from the complete list of proposed new opcodes. You are invited to submit your favorites for inclusion. Please use the e-mail address at the bottom of this page.
| Opcodes | Some of the Funniest |
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| ABC | AlphaBetize Code |
| ACQT | Advance Clock to Quitting Time |
| AFVC | Add Finagle's Variable Constant |
| AWTT | Assemble with Tinker Toys |
| BBW | Branch Both Ways |
| BLP | Boot from Line Printer |
| BOB | Branch On Bug |
| BOHP | Bribe Operator for Higher Priority |
| BOP | Boot OPerator |
| BPIM | Bury Programmer In Manuals |
| BPL | Branch PLease |
| CCWR | Change Color of Write Ring |
| CF | Come From (replaces GOTO) |
| COM | Clear Operator's Mind |
| CRN | Convert to Roman Numerals |
| CVG | Convert to Garbage |
| DAB | Delete All Bugs |
| DK%WMM | Disk Unit - Washing Machine Mode |
| ED | Eject Disk |
| FS | Feign Sleep |
| GND | Guess at Next Digit |
| HELP | Type "No Help Available" |
| IMBP | Insert Mistake and Blame Programmer |
| KCE | Kill Consultant on Error |
| MBTOL | Move Bug To Operator's Lunch |
| PBPBPBP | Place Backup in Plain Brown Paper Bag, Please |
| PVLC | Punch Variable Length Card |
| RD | Rewind Disk |
| RPM | Read Programmer's Mind |
| RTS | Return To Sender |
| STPR | SToP Rain |
| UP | Understand Program(mer) |
| UPCI | Update Card In Place |
| WBT | Water Binary Tree |
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