Computing · Recorded milestone
Virtual machines
Recorded year1967
IBM's CP-40 runs many virtual copies of a System/360 on one machine; VMware brings virtual machines to PCs in 1999 and clouds are built on them.
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- Time-sharingRecorded · 1961enables
- IBM System/360Recorded · 1964enables
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.