Hewlett-Packard gets OpenVMS up and running on an Itanium-based computer, a crucial step to ensuring the venerable OS doesn't suffer the fate of many of its shorter-lived contemporaries. Stephen ...

The dollar sign ($) prompt is required in all DCL command lines. When you execute DCL commands interactively, the OpenVMS system supplies the system prompt, which by default is the $ prompt. When you ...

Users desert OpenvMS for NT, slamming massive support costs asDigital caves in to 'market realities'. Digital OpenVMS users are abandoning the operating system amid spiralling support costs and claims ...

Digital Equipment Corporation offers the OpenVMS operating system on VAX and Alpha platforms. In most ways, SAS runs the same on both hardware platforms. However, certain differences in the hardware ...

Hewlett-Packard has changed its direction on OpenVMS. Instead of pushing its users off the system, it has licensed OpenVMS to a new company that plans to develop ports to the latest Itanium chips and ...

OpenVMS was supposed to have died a slow and unheralded death sometime during the 1990s. Labeled passe by analysts and “legacy” by Windows and Unix enthusiasts in the wake of the distributed computing ...

Hewlett-Packard engineers on Friday got the OpenVMS operating system up and running on an Itanium-based computer, a crucial step to ensuring the venerable OS doesn't suffer the fate of many of its ...