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OpenVMS

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OpenVMS, often referred to as just VMS, is a multi-user, multiprocessing and virtual memory based operating system designed to support time-sharing, batch processing, transaction processing and workstation applications. Its customers have included banks and financial service providers, hospitals and healthcare providers, telecommunications operators, network information services, and industrial manufacturers, with approximately half a million VMS systems in operation worldwide during the 1990s and 2000s.

Facts
Year
1977 2
Significance
Used by banks, hospitals, telecommunications operators and industrial manufacturers 1
Status
Status
Active / In Use 1
Classification
License
Proprietary (Closed Source) 2
Connections

In Field

Source Wikipedia: OpenVMS

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Entity-backed identity for the license enum value this item already carries, resolved to a software license concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The license fact itself stays on the item unchanged.

Sources
1. Wikipedia: OpenVMS
  • History
    alongside the VAX-11/780 minicomputer in 1977
  • Lead section
    Customers using OpenVMS include banks and financial service providers, hospitals and healthcare providers, telecommunications operators, network information services, and industrial manufacturers.
  • Infobox
    working_state=Current
  • In Field: Operating Systems, Lead sentence
    OpenVMS, often referred to as just VMS, is a multi-user, multiprocessing and virtual memory-based operating system.
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2. Wikidata: OpenVMS
  • Wikidata Q479882, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q479882 P571 (inception)
  • Wikidata Q479882 P275 (license)
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