Laboratory automation via a VM/370 teleprocessing virtual machine

A mechanism called the Teleprocessing Virtual Machine (TPVM) has been designed to provide remote intelligent sub-systems with the ability to access and utilize the power of the IBM VM/370 environment. This paper describes the TPVM implementation and operation in a laboratory environment at the Yorktown Research Center. However, the TPVM mechanism is applicable to a much broader spectrum of usage.