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OpenVMS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | OpenVMS (Open Virtual Memory System or just VMS) is the name of a high-end computer server operating system that runs on the VAX and Alpha family of computers developed by Digital Equipment Corporation of Maynard, Massachusetts (now owned by Hewlett-Packard), and more recently on Hewlett-Packard systems built around Intel Itanium CPU. |
 | | OpenVMS supports up to 96 nodes in a single cluster, and allows mixed-architecture clusters, where VAX and Alpha systems, or Alpha and Itanium systems can co-exist in a single cluster (Various organizations have or have demonstrated triple-architecture clusters and cluster configurations with up to 150 nodes, but these configurations are not supported by HP). |
 | | OpenVMS itself is implemented in a variety of different languages (primarily BLISS, VAX Macro and C, and the common language environment and calling standard supports freely mixing these languages, as well as Ada, PL/I, Fortran, Basic, and others), in contrast to a system such as Unix, which is implemented nearly entirely in the C language. |
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