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2 unusual facts about VMS


CT Connect

The initial CTI software from Digital Equipment supported only VAX computers running the VMS operating system both as the server providing the telephone system interconnection and as application clients.

ERONET

ERONET offers both prepaid (!hej) and postpaid services, as well as mobile internet over EDGE network, VMS, multimedia messaging and others.


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Castro Verde Municipality

Further, the municipality of Castro Verde is crossed by the Iberian Pyrite Belt, composed of a massive volcanogenic sulfide deposit (VMS) associated with the polymetallic flanks of volcanic cones in the form of pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena and cassiterite, that begins in Aljustrel, spreads through the lower Alentejo and extends into southern Spain.

Composite Health Care System

The Composite Health Care System (CHCS) is a VMS-based medical informatics system designed by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and used by all United States and OCONUS military health care centers.

CorVision

CorVision was developed by Cortex Corporation for the VAX/VMS ISAM environment.

HP BASIC

HP BASIC for OpenVMS - Created at DEC, now transferred to HP; PDP, VAX, and VMS platforms

Maximum Integrated Data Acquisition System

The system currently runs under Linux, MS Windows, various versions of UNIX, VMS, VxWorks and MS-DOS and can be ported easily to virtually any operating system which supports TCP/IP sockets.

MMDF

A re-coded variant of MMDF, called Pascal MDF (PMDF) was written at the University of Pennsylvania for VMS and was eventually commercialized through Innosoft, which subsequently ported PMDF to Tru64 Unix and Solaris.

Shar

In 1987, Michael Bednarek from The Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne developed a script for a similar purpose in the DIGITAL Command Language for the VMS operating system under the name "VMS Shar version 2".

The Cuckoo's Egg

Studying his log book, Stoll saw that the hacker was familiar with VMS, as well as AT&T Unix.

The Wollongong Group

Eunice - A UNIX emulator for the VAX VMS operating system (based on software written by David Kashtan at SRI)

Notable Wollongong technical staff that worked on these projects include David H. Crocker (Email), Dr. Marshall Rose (SNMP), Karl Auerbach (Netbios, SNMP), Narayan Mohanram (TCP/IP on UNIX), Jerry Scott (TCP/IP on VMS), Leo McLaughlin III and John Bartas (TCP/IP on IBM PC).

Transbase

The wide use of Transbase, especially as basis for repair part management and documentation systems in the automobile industry soon led to a considerable number of ports to diverse operating systems, such as UNIX derivatives, Linux, Windows, VMS, and Mac OS.

Vane display

The New Jersey Turnpike uses vane displays for all roadway speed limit signs; it is not uncommon to see them blank; VMS sign replacements now use a new electronic speed limit sign.

ZOPL

ZOPL is still in use at CGI Group (formerly known as RealTime Datapro), who ported it to VAX/VMS and Unix in the 1980s, and to Windows in 1998.


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