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VM Software

VM Software was a software company whose product line focused on mainframes running IBM's VM/CMS operating system.

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Article summary

VM Software was a software company whose product line focused on mainframes running IBM's VM/CMS operating system.

Key claims

  1. date of formation: 1981 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of formation is "1981". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1192125447

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