[Info-vax] Basic Questions

[Bob Gezelter]

On Sep 3, 7:57 am, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <a1ea66c8-0d01-434f-8c22-9d1c5134a... at r39g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>, Bob Gezelter <gezel... at rlgsc.com> writes:
>
>
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> >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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Vaxman,

With all due respect, I take a degree of offense at your comment "This
reeks of WEENDOZE/Intel campaigning." in response to my posting.

I was by no means "campaigning" for any other platform, merely
observing that the Charon and simh are available on x86 (on *ix and
Windows). Of course, simh is also available on a wide range of other
platforms. I never pretended that the list in my posting was an
exhaustive list. The post was already getting rather lengthy.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com