MVS
Short for Multiple Virtual Storage, the operating system for older IBM mainframes. MVS was first introduced in 1974 and continues to be used, though it has been largely superseded by IBM’s newer operating system, OS/390. IBM’s mainframe operating system is now called z/OS.
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