General purpose host computer system, such as the original OUVAXA, shared by many users, on which ALL-IN-1 software runs and ALL-IN-1 data is stored Can also run Web server software
A brand of computing mainframe that was popular in the 1980's for power computing Still used by some organizations but only one such machine (vaxvm3 cis pitt edu) remains at CIS
Formally, Virtual Address Extension ; the name of a classic minicomputer design developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (later merged with Compaq, later merged with Hewlett-Packard) from the PDP-11 The first VAX shipped in 1977 For ten years after 1980 VAXen were among the most important Unix platforms Microprocessor reimplementations are still shipping today