Uncoupling a central processing unit from its associated hardware for interaction with data handling apparatus alien to the operating system controlling said unit and hardware
CA 2009779 C · Owner: Grice, Lonnie Edward · Inventors: Loffredo, John Mario; Dinwiddie, John Monroe Jr.; Grice, Lonnie Edward
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The functions of two virtual operating systems (e.g. S/370 VM, VSE or IX370 and S/88 OS) are merged into one physical system. Partner pairs of S/88 processors run the S/88 OS and handle the fault tolerant and single system image aspects of the system. One or more partner pairs of S/370 processors are coupled to corresponding S/88 processors directly and through the S/88 bus. Each S/370 processor is allocated from 1 to 16 megabytes of contiguous storage from the S/88 main storage. Each S/370 virtual operating system thinks its memory allocation starts at address 0 and it manages its memory through normal S/370 dynamic memory allocation and paging techniques. The S/370 is limit checked to …
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