A virtual operating system
TL;DR: The authors report on their successful experience in using a virtual operating system that disentangles computing environments from their underlying operating systems and achieving inter-system uniformity at all three levels of user interface: virtual machine, utilities, and command language.
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Abstract: Moving to a new system is costly and error-prone. The problem can be reduced through use of a virtual operating system that disentangles computing environments from their underlying operating systems. The authors report on their successful experience in doing this and achieving inter-system uniformity at all three levels of user interface: virtual machine, utilities, and command language.
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