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Name: zaverikeyur
Date: December 24, 2001 at 08:53:47 Pacific
Subject: what is vms

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can any body told me what is vms

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Response Number 1

Name: Ryan Cooley
Date: December 26, 2001 at 05:04:20 Pacific
Subject: what is vms

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It's an Operating System made by Digital Equipment Corporation, which runs on the APLHA processor. Compaq bought out DEC and is now the seller and developer of OpenVMS and the ALPHA processor.

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Name: keyur
Date: December 27, 2001 at 09:32:56 Pacific
Subject: what is vms

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if it can be possibel to install vms in intel piii 933 system if possibel if can get free

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Response Number 3

Name: Robin
Date: December 28, 2001 at 04:43:11 Pacific
Subject: what is vms

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OpenVMS is an industrial strength secure multi-user multi-tasking computer operating system (i.e. its not a consumer toy!). As the previous reply stated it was originally designed and produced by Digital Equipment Corporation but is now owned by Compaq Computer Inc. since their buy-out of Digital in 1998. See www.openvms.compaq.com for further details of the OpenVMS operating system and FAQ's.
It runs on two processor type's; VAX and Alpha both of which were designed by Digital and are now produced and marketed by Compaq. The VAX chip (32 bit CISC) was superceded by the Alpha chip (64 bit RISC) and is now end of life. Compaq announced this year that Alpha will be replaced by the Intel Itanium Processor Family (64 bit EPOC) over the next few years.
It has both character cell and windows GUI user interfaces. However the windows interface is based on the X.11 windows standard (as used in Linux/Unix) and not the MS Windows system.
You cannot get a version of VMS that runs NATIVE on any Intel Pentium processor (32 bit CISC). You can get an emulator for the VAX version of VMS that runs on Pentium. Its called CHARON VAX. See www.charon-vax.com
You can alo get a hobbyist version of VMS that is free for non-commercial use. See http://www.compaq.com/inform/issues/issue27/ov02-openvms.html
FWIW: Both the VMS and Windows NT operating systems were designed by the same guy, Dave Cutler.
Hope this helps,
Robin

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Response Number 4

Name: Oli
Date: January 19, 2002 at 19:11:30 Pacific
Subject: what is vms

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Virtual Management System

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Response Number 5

Name: Jeremy Wood
Date: January 24, 2002 at 14:51:52 Pacific
Subject: what is vms

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You can get a shell account to a VMS system if you just wanna learn about it. These are pretty much just limited to command lines but hey thats the part you need to learn anyway. I used to have one. I just searched at altavista for +vms +"shell account"

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Response Number 6

Name: Randy
Date: February 8, 2002 at 12:02:46 Pacific
Subject: what is vms

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Virtual MEMORY System, actually. And you can run OpenVMS AXP on a PC if you can still find one with an Alpha chip. But in NO WAY is VMS free. Ever. You have to pay for media AND license.

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