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-The official name of
[VMS|http://www.levitte.org/~ava/index.htmlx
] is currently [OpenVMS|http://www.openvms.org/]. VMS is a product of HP (HP bought Compaq after Compaq bought Digital). VMS currently supports two hardware platforms: VAX and Alpha, and the variants are known as VMS VAX and VMS Alpha (or OpenVMS VAX and OpenVMS Alpha). VMS support
for Itanium (or IA-64) has been announced
.
+An
[Acronym
] for __V__irtual __M__emory __S__ystem
.
-[http://deathrow
.vistech
.net/
] is a public access
OpenVMS cluster
. The cluster currently consists of DEC Alphas (64 bit)
, and VAXen (32 bit - Some uVAX hardware
, some emulated) running
the OpenVMS operating system
.
+[VMS] is an OperatingSystem written by [DEC] for their [VAX] line of minicomputers
. In 1990, around version 5
.5, [DEC
] renamed it to [
OpenVMS], after [VMS] was certified as having high support for [POSIX] standards
. Shortly thereafter
, [OpenVMS] was ported to the [Alpha] architecture
, released as <i>OpenVMS for AXP 1.</i> in 1992. Following
the history of [DEC], [
OpenVMS] is now owned by [HP]
.
-Also
, Visual Motion Simulator:
[http://www-sdb
.larc
.nasa
.gov
/Simulations
/Simulators
/VMS
/vms
.html
]
+[OpenVMS] currently runs on [VAX] and [Alpha]
, respectively known as
[OpenVMS] for [VAX] and [OpenVMS] for [Alpha]. Support for the [Itanium] has been announced.
+
+! See also
+
+* Lots of [Information about the VMS operating system |
http://www.levitte
.org/~ava/index
.htmlx]
+* The [OpenVMS Community Portal | http:
//www.openvms.org
/]
+* [Deathrow | http:
//deathrow
.vistech.net/
], a public access [OpenVMS] cluster consisting of [DEC] [Alpha]s (64 bit) and [VAX]en (32 bit, some uVAX hardware, some emulated)
----
+
Part of CategoryOperatingSystem
+
+----
+
+!! Alternatively
+
+Sometimes, [VMS] is an [Acronym] for [Visual Motion Simulator | http://www-sdb.larc.nasa.gov/Simulations/Simulators/VMS/vms.html].
