Short for Virtual Memory System, a multi-user, multitasking, virtual memory operating system that runs on DEC's VAX and Alpha lines of minicomputers and workstations VMS was introduced in 1979 along with the first VAX minicomputer
Variable Message Sign "Variable message sign" is PENNDOT's name for those flashing electronic signs that you see along our interstates and expressways The variable message signs are used to relate traffic information and safety messages to drivers The electronic sign could be one of three types One is the familiar mobile orange electronic sign along the side of the highway Another type is a taller fixed position electric sign The last type is what's called an overhead variable message sign The overhead sign is larger and is mounted above the lanes of traffic Like the electronic signs on the side of the highway, the overhead message sign can be programmed to provide updated travel messages to drivers
An operating system by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) that has competed for many years with UNIX but is gradually dying out DEC's version of UNIX is Ultrix
A multi-tasking, multi-user operating system written by DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation)
Virtual Memory System (VMS, specifically OpenVMS) is the operating system on the Beecher VAXcluster, node UCBEH
An operating system designed at DEC to run on the VAX computer Passed over by DARPA in favor of Unix, because DEC was closed source salon com | March 6, 2000
Virtual Memory System Official short name for the VMS Timesharing Service: a cluster of two Alpha processors and one VAX processor that use a common VMS disk structure The actual network address used to access the VMS cluster is vms cis pitt edu
/V-M-S/ n DEC's proprietary operating system for its VAX minicomputer; one of the seven or so environments that loom largest in hacker folklore Many UNIX fans generously concede that VMS would probably be the hacker's favorite commercial OS if UNIX didn't exist; though true, this makes VMS fans furious One major hacker gripe with VMS concerns its slowness --- thus the following limerick: There once was a system called VMS Of cycles by no means abstemious It's chock-full of hacks And runs on a VAX And makes my poor stomach all squeamious --- The Great Quux See also {VAX}, {{TOPS-10}}, {{TOPS-20}}, {{UNIX}}, {runic}
An advanced operating system, originally designed by DEC (now owned by Hewlett-Packard), that operates on the VAX and Alpha architectures Support for the Itanium platform has been announced
This is the operating system that our main menu-driven system used to operate on It is a product of Digital Equipment Corporation VMS stands for Virtual Memory System