Virtue (software)
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Virtue is a virtual session manager running under IBM's VM operating system.
Product
Virtue, short for "virtual tube", was the first session manager commercially available for the VM environment on IBM
Development
Product development occurred at III offices within Westinghouse Automation Intelligence division, Orlando, Florida, United States. Broad range in-depth testing was conducted at IBM's data center in Tampa, Florida, and the IBM lab in Böblingen, Germany. Although the package nominally ran as a highly privileged CMS session and utilized CMS services, it deployed an internal multitasking mechanism called a "subvisor", which queued and prioritized tasks to be done.[1]
Marketing
Westinghouse Electric acquired the marketing rights in various regions.
After release, a number of competing products entered the market, including MultiTerm and