Re: Best Platform for Oracle

From: Walter T Rejuney <BlueSax_at_Unforgetable.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:45:04 -0400
Message-ID: <39F73840.945CAE91@Unforgetable.com>

Syltrem wrote:

> Just the name!
>
> VMS was renamed to OpenVMS when DEC started to make it possible for VMS to
> talk more easily with the PC world, namely NT. But it's still the good old
> (and beloved) VMS.
>
> Syltrem
>
> "Norris" <jcheong_at_cooper.com.hk> wrote in message
> news:8t1jd4$h8r2_at_imsp212.netvigator.com...
> > What is the difference between OpenVMS and VMS (Closed) ?
> >

There is more to it then just the name change. The old VMS ran on a variety of non-risc VAX machines. When risc machines were introduced (Alpha) DEC made changes to accomdate that and in the process added a bunch of new functionality.

From a "user" point of view not much happened becaused there were few changes in DCL. From a SysAdmin point of view there were some significant changes. From a systems programmer point of view the changes were enormous and sometimes meant monumental changes to the way that certain things were done. Received on Wed Oct 25 2000 - 14:45:04 CDT