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Lockheed(?) Sunnyvale was working on MOL and the triplex 360/67. There
was a cp67-360/67 meeting sponsored in Sunnyvale that included some of
the Lockheed(?) and IBM people on the project. There must have also been
some people from Monterey NPG ... but I don't remember. When MOL was
canceled, an IBMer on the project joined the IBM cambridge science
center at MIT.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_Orbiting_Laboratory

He is also person the that invented compare-and-swap instruction when he
was working on fine grain multiprocessor locking for CP/67
(Compare-And-Swap chosen because CAS are his initials). CSC attempted to
get CAS added to (new) 370 architecture ... but it was originally
rejected. The 370 architecture owners said the POK favorite son
operating system people said that CAS was needed for multiprocessor
support, that test-and-set instruction was more than sufficient. They
said to justify it for 370, we would have to come up with some
justifications that didn't require multiprocessor. thus was born the
example uses for large multithreaded applications (whether they ran on
single processor or multiprocessor configurations) ... examples that
still appear in mainframe principles of operation appendix.
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dz9zr003/A.6?DT=20040504121320

Other trivia: ... before windows there was ms/dos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS
before ms/dos there was seattle computer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Computer_Products
before seattle computer there was cp/m,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M
before cp/m, kildall worked on cp67/cms at npg (gone 404, but lives on
at the wayback machine)
http://web.archive.org/web/20071011100440/http://www.khet.net/gmc/docs/museum/en_cpmName.html
npg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Postgraduate_School
cp67/cms (aka precursor to vm/370)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/CMS
before cp67/cms ... there was virtual machine, interactive computing cp/40
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/cp40seas1982.txt

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virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970