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Replacing VAX Print Servers With An ISV Solution Ported To SFU 3.0
White Papers When Air Products needed to replace its aging VAX VMS print servers, the company needed a product that could handle 8000 users, 650 printers and 50,000 pages a day on a single Pentium II server. LBM Systems' UniQue Print, ported on Interix...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Making The Transition From HP OpenVMS VAX To HP OpenVMS On Integrity Servers
White Papers This white paper, written for HP OpenVMS VAX customers, provides a background to support the decision to migrate to the Integrity server platform. It highlights the benefits of OpenVMS on Integrity servers and presents an overview of migration...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Migration OpenVMS Applications From VAX To ALPHA
White Papers VAX to ALPHA VMS migration is a not just a re-compilation of the current application in the ALPHA environment. In this document, a pragmatic approach is presented to carryout the VAX ALPHA OpenVMS migrations successfully and seamlessly.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
VAX Emulator On HP’s Marvel AlphaServers Extends The Life Of Legacy DEC VAX Systems
White Papers The system provided for this testing was a 16-way GS1280 AlphaServer (code-named Marvel) running multiple copies of CHARON VAX/AXP Plus. The test suites were the same used in previous decades by VMS Engineering to test new VAX hardware designs.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Strategies For Migrating From Alpha And VAX Systems To HP Integrity Server Systems On OpenVMS
White Papers The ideal method for migration to OpenVMS on the Intel Itanium architecture is to recompile, relink, and requalify. For many users, this strategy has been highly successful. Many applications, each comprised of hundreds of thousands of lines of...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Managing Evolution: Transitioning OpenVMS Applications To Itanium Without Compromising Your Agency's Business
White Papers One of the latest in evolutionary trends is the migration of OpenVMS applications from VAX and Alpha to Hewlett-Packard's new Itanium platform. This webcast will help attendees effectively navigate OpenVMS application migration on VAX and Alpha to...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
VaxVoice Extended SDK
Downloads Vax Voice ActiveX is the easiest way to add PC-to-PC voice conferencing and text chat over the LAN, WAN or Internet in your applications and Web pages. Using Vax Voice activeX three or more persons can have a real time voice conference and during...
[February 2, 2006, 12:01]
HP OpenVMS Cluster Support On HP Integrity Servers
White Papers HP OpenVMS Cluster software provides a highly integrated OpenVMS computing environment distributed over multiple HP Integrity server, AlphaServer, or VAX systems; or a mix of AlphaServer systems and VAX systems or AlphaServer and Integrity server...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
OpenVMS Calling Standard
White Papers The OpenVMS Calling Standard defines the requirements, mechanisms, and conventions that support procedure-to-procedure calls for hp OpenVMS VAX, hp OpenVMS Alpha, and hp OpenVMS Industry Standard 64. The standard defines the run-time data...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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]
Linux Kernel: Moving Closer To Windows?
Talkback Dave Cutler was a VMS contributor in the early days of VMS but that was at around version 3 or 4 and still living on a VAX. I am a systems admin for both Unix (AIX,Solaris, HP-UX) and VMS (VAX, Alpha).
[July 2, 2004, 17:42]
From IBM Server Architecture To The Xbox
News Although, I never saw it as a VAX killer. Soltis rose to fame when he saved IBM's mid-range strategy with the development of the AS400 "Vax killer" in the 1980s and continued when he acted as rescuer again in the 1990s, when he found a lasting...
[November 18, 2005, 15:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A super-duper dual Pentium II running at 300MHz will perhaps be able to manage 100 users, if you have absolutely lashings of memory: when I were a lad, I worked on a VAX 11/780 with something like sixty users.
[June 20, 1998, 7:59]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News A super-duper dual Pentium II running at 300MHz will perhaps be able to manage 100 users, if you have absolutely lashings of memory: when I were a lad, I worked on a VAX 11/780 with something like sixty users.
[June 20, 1998, 6:59]
Catching Up With 1970s Operating Systems!
Talkback VMS, the operating system designed to run on DEC VAX computers in the 1970s had this kind of philosophy long ago. I think it was also present in ICL's George 3 and George 4 operating systems which I used for a while in the 1970s.
[January 4, 2007, 15:35]
The Minicomputer Returns To A Web Site Near You
Talkback The first computer I ever used when I was 12 was a Vax 11/750 in 1980, I was instantly hooked on computers and IT! Misty eyes and fond memories running through my head.
[January 10, 2006, 22:36]
Absolutely Right Peter
Talkback Anybody old enough to remember VAX/VMS clusters? Sometimes new technology is not so good as the old!
[September 7, 2007, 20:52]
DECnet To TCP/IP Migration For OpenVMS Users
White Papers OpenVMS recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, and, since first booting on VAX hardware, OpenVMS, with its DECnet networking protocol, has created a loyal user base. Customers are pleased by its reliability, robustness, security, and performance...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
HP OpenVMS Industry Standard 64 (OpenVMS I64) Business Practices For HP Integrity Servers
White Papers One such evolution was the transition, 10 years ago, from 32-bit VAX to 64-bit Alpha. HP has maintained its commitment to continuously improve and evolve OpenVMS. The newest evolution is the porting of OpenVMS to the cost-effective, industry...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Maximize Productivity And Minimize Overhead Costs
White Papers Weitz had a custom program running on a VAX, and they are looking for faster access to integrated real-time information. Weitz projects include retail, retirement living, education, industrial plants, golf courses, institutional and commercial...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
