Earlier PROFS, DISOSS and Office/36
OfficeVision/VM was originally named PROFS (for PRofessional OFfice System) and was initially made available in 1981. Before that it was a PRPQ (Programming Request for Price Quotation), an IBM administrative term for "not quite supported" software. PROFS was originally developed by IBM in Dallas, in conjunction with Amoco.
PROFS and its e-mail component, known colloquially as PROFS Notes, featured prominently in the investigation of the Iran-Contra scandal. Oliver North believed he had deleted his correspondence, but the system archived it anyway. Congress subsequently examined the e-mail archives..
OfficeVision/MVS originated from IBM DISOSS and OfficeVision/400, from IBM Office/36.
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