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Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
> Aug1976, TYMSHARE
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymshare
> start offering their VM370/CMS-based computer conferencing system free
> to the IBM mainframe users group, SHARE
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHARE_(computing)
>
> archives here:
> http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare


TYMSHARE beginnings:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymshare#Beginnings

Other TYMSHARE:

Ann Hardy
https://medium.com/chmcore/someone-elses-computer-the-prehistory-of-cloud-computing-bca25645f89

Ann Hardy is a crucial figure in the story of Tymshare and
time-sharing. She began programming in the 1950s, developing software
for the IBM Stretch supercomputer. Frustrated at the lack of opportunity
and pay inequality for women at IBM -- at one point she discovered she
was paid less than half of what the lowest-paid man reporting to her was
paid -- Hardy left to study at the University of California, Berkeley,
and then joined the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1962. At
the lab, one of her projects involved an early and surprisingly
successful time-sharing operating system.

Ann Hardy at Computer History Museum
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102717167

Ann rose up to become Vice President of the Integrated Systems Division
at Tymshare, from 1976 to 1984, which did online airline reservations,
home banking, and other applications. When Tymshare was acquired by
McDonnell-Douglas in 1984, Ann's position as a female VP became
untenable, and was eased out of the company by being encouraged to spin
out Gnosis, a secure, capabilities-based operating system developed at
Tymshare. Ann founded Key Logic, with funding from Gene Amdahl, which
produced KeyKOS, based on Gnosis, for IBM and Amdahl mainframes. After
closing Key Logic, Ann became a consultant, leading to her cofounding
Agorics with members of Ted Nelson's Xanadu project

... snip ...

... trivia: 1984, I was brought in to do the evaluation of Gnosis as
part of the spin-off

GNOSIS: A Prototype Operating System for the 1990's
http://cap-lore.com/CapTheory/upenn/Gnosis/Gnosis.html

-- 
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970

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