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[Acronym] for __D__igital __E__quipment __C__orporation
-They made VAX machines during the 1980's (and 70's maybe?) which were widely used - both WaikatoUniversity and CanterburyUniversity still have VAX mainframes in service. VAX's can
run unix or
Digital's Command Language (DCL).
+They made VAX machines during the 1980's (and 70's maybe?) which were widely used - both WaikatoUniversity and CanterburyUniversity still have VAX mainframes in service. VAXs normally
run the VMS operating system with
Digital's Command Language (DCL) as the [CLI] (As pointed out by zcat(1)). They can also run unix
.
Also made Alpha machines.
DEC were eventually bought out by [Compaq].
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-'' correct me if I'm wrong, but I understood DCL was the shell and VMS was the OS.. - zcat ''
