ARCHIVED: What are VMS and OpenVMS, and where can I find more information about them?

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Introduced in 1978 along with its VAX line of minicomputers, VMS (Virtual Memory System) was Digital Equipment Corporation's (DEC) answer to Unix. It was versatile enough to power the entire VAX line, with VMS programs running unaltered on both low- and high-end models. VMS was especially popular among academic and research institutions.

VMS, now known as OpenVMS, has been ported to the Alpha and Itanium processors. More recent versions, which are POSIX-compliant, offer improved interoperability with Unix and Windows.

Hewlett-Packard, the current owner of OpenVMS, has more information at: 

  http://h71000.www7.hp.com/

There are also a number of VMS newsgroups, including comp.os.vms and the groups in the vmsnet.* hierarchy.

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