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Name: dorfen Date: June 27, 2001 at 18:07:02 Pacific
Comment:
allright call me an idiot im not familiar with what vms is what is it an emulated os????
Name: Rick Date: July 20, 2001 at 09:56:48 Pacific
Reply:
No, OpenVMS is not an emulation of anything. As far as I remember, it was developed by Digital Equipment Corporation back around 1971 to run on their VAX (and later AXP) set of mid-size computers. It is a full-blown operating system with network services, database support, and command-line user interface. I spent several years working with it and yet to find anything close to it in reliability or speed. It has a tremendous help system for users. DEC used to have a large number of classes. In the last few years, Compaq Computer Co. started supporting the system. There is a large user group called DECUS and a tremendous software library available. I would highly recommend it for industrial environments such as manufacturing.
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