Linux Kernel: Moving Closer To Windows?
News Windows, said Russinovich, owes a great deal to a project led by David Cutler, one of the creators of Digital's VMS operating system, to port Windows to what was then Digital's 64-bit Alpha processor.
[July 1, 2004, 15:05]
Itanium Gives OpenVMS New Lease On Life
News The operating system, one of the jewels in the crown of once-mighty Digital Equipment Corporation and originally called VMS, was designed hand-in-hand with Digital's VAX processors and computing hardware.
[February 4, 2003, 7:52]
US Report: Digital CEO Palmer Steps Down
News Rose will also oversee the Alpha and Open VMS development that was brought on board with the Digital acquisition. At the time of the Digital announcement merger, Compaq executives said that the integration of Tandem was just being completed.
[June 11, 1998, 7:33]
Linux Kernel: Moving Closer To Windows?
Talkback "Windows, said Russinovich, owes a great deal to a project led by David Cutler, one of the creators of Digital's VMS Unix operating system. Your ignorance is astounding, VMS is NOTHING like a Unix system, never has been, and never will be.
[July 1, 2004, 23:53]
Linux Kernel: Moving Closer To Windows?
Talkback "one of the creators of Digital's VMS Unix operating system" I guess DEC management would have been surprised to find that they had a "VMS Unix" os. The most clueless phrase in this whole piece.
[July 1, 2004, 23:48]
Linux Kernel: Moving Closer To Windows?
Talkback "Windows, said Russinovich, owes a great deal to a project led by David Cutler, one of the creators of Digital's VMS Unix operating system" No, VMS is a completely different OS from Unix. The fellow who wrote this article clearly knows nothing at all.
[July 1, 2004, 23:19]
Genicom Ships Digital-brand Printer
News VAX and VMS are in most people's minds as the forefront of Digital technology but they made printers for 15 to 20 years. Genicom has released the first Digital-branded printer since acquiring the Digital Printing Systems Business last August.
[February 4, 1998, 14:31]
Compaq Ignites Wildfire Servers
News It will run Compaqs Tru64 Unix (formerly Digital Unix) and Open VMS, with Linux to follow. Up to 16 nodes can be clustered under VMS or eight nodes under Tru64. Compaq will tomorrow unveil yet more details of its much-hyped new enterprise servers...
[April 5, 2000, 8:30]
HP's OpenVMS Throws Itanium Lifeline
News OpenVMS began its life in 1977 as VMS, the operating system that powered Digital Equipment Corp.s once-dominant VAX computers. I'm somewhat concerned about the future of VMS if there's no good hardware to run it on.
[January 17, 2005, 15:05]
HP's AlphaServer Reaches End Of Line
News That software, born more than 25 years ago as VMS (Virtual Memory System), is being moved to the Itanium processor. The AlphaServer line began at Digital Equipment and outlasted that company's 1998 acquisition by Compaq Computer.
[October 20, 2003, 11:40]
Guy Kewney: Alpha Chance For Intel?
News For example, they say, the VMS operating system is solid, 20 years old, and vastly to be preferred, for serious business applications, to anything from Microsoft. You can no longer get NT for Alpha, and you will never be able to get Windows XP for...
[July 10, 2001, 16:23]
Linux Bandwagon Gains Compaq
News We're looking to leverage the same kind of clustering technology on our Unix environment as we have on our VMS system," said Joe Pollizzi, deputy division head at the Space Telescope Science Institute, in Baltimore.
[January 18, 1999, 12:15]
Linux Kernel: Moving Closer To Windows?
Talkback Also this meant the departure of the NT tech lead, which by the way also led VMS at Digital. Windows NT 3.0 was monolithic instead of microkernel, but the windowing code run as a protected process, not inside the kernel.
[July 9, 2004, 0:20]
Oracle's Programmers Set To Complete Linux Switch
News The last time it did so was in the early 1990s, moving from Digital Equipment's VMS to Sun's Solaris, he said. Oracle will finish switching its 9,000-person in-house programming staff to Linux by the end of 2004, the database powerhouse said on...
[May 27, 2004, 8:50]
