Conversational Monitor System

Conversational Monitor System (CMS ) is an operating system developed by IBM. It is a single-user system and runs primarily on IBM mainframe computers inside a hypervisor such as Z / VM.

It was developed in a laboratory of IBM, the Cambridge Scientific Center, hence the acronym CMS was initially for Cambridge Monitor System. From 1972, it was marketed by IBM.

You can access the system through terminals, such as the IBM 3270th

It is mainly used for software development, programming languages ​​such as Fortran to stand, PL / I or APL available. Similarly, the batch languages ​​EXEC and REXX, as well as the editor XEDIT.

  • Mainframe operating system (IBM)
APL (programming language)
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