[Info-vax] Basic Questions

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In article <a1ea66c8-0d01-434f-8c22-9d1c5134af10 at r39g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>, Bob Gezelter <gezelter at rlgsc.com> writes:
>On Sep 3, 3:38=A0am, Julian R A Manning <julian.r.a.mann... at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I have the following basic questions about VMS:
>>
>> Type of OS? For example is it single/multi-user, multitasking etc?
>>
>> General Features? For example firewall, GUI?
>>
>> Minimum Hardware Requirements?
>>
>> File Systems supported?
>>
>> Applications?
>>
>> Yours sincerely, Julian Manning
>
>Julian,
>
>OpenVMS is a multi-tasking, multi-user operating system supporting
>both uni-processors and multi-processors. OpenVMS supports three
>processor architectures: VAX (1977), Alpha (1992), and Itanium
>(Emulation environments are available for both VAX and Alpha that run
>under various operating systems on the x86 family processors).

This reeks of WEENDOZE/Intel campaigning.  I have run OpenVMS using
SimH on the PowerPC based Apple PowerBook and Mac OS X.  There have
also been reports from others of the use of SimH to run OpenVMS on 
other, such as ARM, architectures... ie. OpenVMS on a mobile device.  
There is no need to don the elegant clothes of OpenVMS only to wade 
about in the cesspool of WEENDOZE.

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