< operating system > (MVS) Release 2 of OS/VS2 , called MVS because it had multiple 16 MB virtual address spaces, in contrast to SVS . MVS ran on the IBM 390 series mainframes . It became MVS/SP, then MVS/XA (with 31-bit addressing) and then MVS/ESA.
MVS/Open Edition (MVS/OE), aimed at the growing open systems market, added TCP/IP and Unix support in an MVS address space, allowing users to run IBM, CICS -type applications, batch applications and Unix.
MVS/ESA was repackaged as OS/390 as a marketing exercise but it's basically the same thing.
Version: 5.1.
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(1999-01-20)