VMS Overview

Origin:

VMS was created by DEC (Digital) back in 1977 for their new VAX mini-computer series.

Names:

Over the years mulutiple official product name have been used:

I will as many VMS people do just call it VMS.

Ownership:

VMS was created by DEC (Digital) in 1977.

Compaq acquired DEC (Digital) including VMS in 1998.

HP acquired Compaq including VMS in 2002.

VSI got the development rigths for VMS from HP in 2014.

And in 2015 HP was split in HP and HPE where some remaining VMS activities went to HPE. Since then VSI has gradually taking over all VMS activities from HPE.

Platform:

VMS has been running on multiple harware platform sover the years:

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