[Info-vax] Basic Questions

[Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing]

In article <0a10fc19-f772-40cc-a40e-8c732b5ad404 at i18g2000pro.googlegroups.com>, Julian R A Manning <julian.r.a.manning at gmail.com> writes:
>Hello
>
>I have the following basic questions about VMS:

These are pretty basic. DO you have a homework assignment?

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>Type of OS? For example is it single/multi-user, multitasking etc?


Multi-user/Multi-tasking server OS with reasonable real-time capabilities.

>General Features? For example firewall, GUI?

Active/Active clustering, host-based volume shadowing.

XWindows support and an Xwindows gui, native DCL command line interface,
optional Unix-like shell.

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>Minimum Hardware Requirements?
>
Depends on software version.  Vax, Alpha, Itanium or convincing emulation or
virtualized version of those things.


>File Systems supported?

ODS-1, ODS-2, ODS-5, FAT (in limited applications), whatever the ISO standard
is for CDs.

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>Applications?

Web server, database server, control systems.  Used in manufacturing, medical
records, cellphone billing and text messaging, etc, etc.

You might want to go to www.hp.com/go/openvms and poke around.

-- Alan