As an alternative method to signing on through the TELNET daemon, the OpenVMS Alpha spawner program allows SAS/CONNECT sessions on OpenVMS Alpha systems without ...

A patch is available for a privilege-escalation flaw affecting the 40-year-old OpenVMS operating system on hardware powered by ancient VAX and Alpha processors from Digital Equipment Corporation. The ...

OpenVMS was supposed to have died a slow and unheralded death sometime during the 1990s. Labeled passe by analysts and “legacy” by Windows and Unix enthusiasts in the wake of the distributed computing ...

Because the smallest numeric variable that can be represented on the OpenVMS systems are different from each other (VAX, 2 bytes; Alpha, 3 bytes) numeric variables in OpenVMS VAX SAS files must be ...

Hewlett-Packard gets OpenVMS up and running on an Itanium-based computer, a crucial step to ensuring the venerable OS doesn't suffer the fate of many of its shorter-lived contemporaries. Stephen ...

Later this week, Hewlett-Packard Co. will stop selling new AlphaServer systems, bringing an end to the hardware platform long used to support the venerable OpenVMS operating system. But the operating ...

Hewlett-Packard engineers on Friday got the OpenVMS operating system up and running on an Itanium-based computer, a crucial step to ensuring the venerable OS doesn't suffer the fate of many of its ...