David Geer, Chip makers turn to multicore Processors, Computer, Vol.38, No.5, 2005 May, pp.11-13

Renato Figueiredo, Peter A Dinda and Jos&eacut; Fortes, Guest Editors' Introduction: Resource Virtualization Renaissance, Computer, Vol.38, No.5, 2005 May, pp.28-31 (Abstract)

James E Smith and Ravi Nair, The Architecture of Virtual Machines, Computer, Vol.38, No.5, 2005 May, pp.32-38 (Abstract; also, An Overview . , .)

Mendel Rosenblum and Tad Garfinkel, Virtual Machine Monitors: Current Technology and Future Trends, Computer, Vol.38, No.5, 2005 May, pp.39-47 (Abstract)

Rich Uhlig et al., Intel Virtualization Technology, Computer, Vol.38, No.5, 2005 May, pp.48-56 (Abstract)

Andrew Whitaker et al., Rethinking the Design of Virtual Machine Monitors, Computer, Vol.38, No.5, 2005 May, pp.57-62 (Abstract)

Paul Ruth et al., Virtual Distributed Environments in a Shared Infrastructure, Computer, Vol.38, No.5, 2005 May, pp.63-69 (Abstract)

Peter S Magnusson, The Virtual Test Lab, Computer, Vol.38, No.5, 2005 May, pp.95-97 (Abstract)

William Kahan and Dan Zuras, An Open Question to Developers of Numerical Software, Computer, Vol.38, No.5, 2005 May, pp.91-94 (Abstract)

Thomas Anderson et al., Overcoming the Internet Impasse through Virtualization, Computer, Vol.38, No.5, 2005 April, pp.34-41 (Abstract)

Steve Ulfelder, Virtualization: Is it Virtually Irresistable?, 2005 April 1 (opens quoting TJ Sylvester: "No doubt about it, virtualization is the sweetest thing to come along in a long time")

Jack Schofield, Square pegs for full circles, The Guardian, 2005 May 12 (Yahoo's 360 service hopes to offer newcomers a home on the web)

Bobbie Johnson, Gloves come off in console wars, The Guardian, 2005 March 13 (Microsoft unwraps its next generation Xbox 360 games in latest round of fight to dominate £6bn market)

Wikipedia, Time sharing

JAN Lee, Looking back, Computer, Vol.29, No.9, 1996 September (the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System first came on line in September 1964)

General Electric, The Dartmouth Time-Sharing System, 1965 March 26 (a brief description)

John Lienhard, IBM 360 Computer (a spectator's view of the IBM versus GE contest and the absence of time-sharing on the 360; episode 1703 of the splendid Engines of our Ingenuity)

Home Page of the Multics System, includes many links, and links to other sites, and papers such as the following:
FJ Corbató and VA Vyssotsky, Introduction and Overview of the Multics System, ("the original goal was to time-share computers to allow simultaneous access by several persons while giving to each of them the illusion of having the whole machine at his disposal.")

John Deane, Timesharing History: a Researcher's Findings, Computer Resurrection, Issue 31, 2003 Autumn (a timeline)
John Deane, Timesharing History: an update, ibid. 32, 2004 New Year (the timeline updated)
Brian Hardisty, Letters to the Editor, ibid. 32 (extra information)
Alan Thomson, Timesharing History: the UK story, ibid. 32

Fourmilab

Project MAC

PJ Denning, Great Principles of IT

Derek Smith, A Brief History of Computing Technology, 1951 to 1958 (also, to 1924, 1925 to 1942, 1943 to 1950, 1959 to date, Memory Subtypes in Computing)

MTS: Michigan Terminal System

University of Michigan, A History of MTS, Information Technology Digest, Vol.5, No.5, 1996 May 13

Susan Topol and Josh Simon, Michigan Terminal System (mostly about what made MTS successful (people))

David L Mills Michigan Terminal System (with pictures and links; his wording suggests that UMich ran MTS under CP67)

RJ Creasy, The Origin of the VM/370 Time-sharing System, IBM J. Res. Develop., Vol.25, No.5, 1981 September, pp.483-490

Melinda Varian, VM and the VM Community: Past, Present, and Future (68pp. PDF; an informal, heavily footnoted, narrative compiled by querying many of the main players)

Tom Van Vleck, The IBM 360/67 and CP/CMS (a very useful summary of how it all went)

Lynn Wheeler, 1993 Newsgroup postings

PJ Denning, Notes on Virtual Machines

Virtualization, Forbes, 2005 January 3 (running different operating systems on the one chip, IBM's PowerPC 970)

IBM Technical Journals (linked to IBM Systems Journal, IBM Journal of Research and Development, Archives)

RL Taylor, Low-End General-Purpose Systems, IBM J. Res. Develop., Vol.25, No.5, 1981 September, pp.429-440 (describes IBM's small commercial systems from the System/3 in 1969 to the System/38 in 1978)

GG Henry, IBM small-system architecture and design---Past, present, and future, IBM Sys. J., Vol.25, Nos.3/4, 1986 September, pp.321-333 (describes IBM's small systems, of all kinds)

DL Schleicher and RL Taylor, System overview of the Application System/400, IBM Systems Journal, Vol.28, No.3, pp.398-413 (AS/400 succeeded the System/38)

iSeries Overview, IBM (where the System/38 has got to now; iSeriesnetwork.com is not IBM's)

Corestore (lots of pictures of a System/38 in private hands; claims System/38 "morphed" from FS (see next), which one of the original Rochester people told me was not the case)

Mark Smotherman, Selected Historical Computer Designs (a large collection of links and subsidiary documents, for example IBM Future System (FS)

Answers.com

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