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Encyclopedia: VAX

VAX is a 32-bit computing architecture that supports an orthogonal instruction set (machine language) and virtual addressing (i.e. demand paged virtual memory). It was developed in the mid-1970s by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). DEC was later purchased by Compaq, which in turn was purchased by Hewlett-Packard.

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	(Japanese)	VAX
	(German)	Virtual Address eXtension
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TPU programming language

TPU is a scripting language that was supplied with the text editor EVE (extensible VAX editor), which was supplied with the operating system VAX/VMS...

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Fcx

FCX is an older file compression utility and format used on VAX and PC computers...

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Interlink

Interlink is a commercial product comprising hardware and software for file transfer between IBM and VAX computers...

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Supermini

classical 16-bit minicomputers. Reportedly coined by DEC at their VAX announcement in 1976, the term is.... Significant superminis Norsk Data Nord-5, first supermini, 1972 Norsk Data Nord-50, 1975 DEC VAX...

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Digital UNIX

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SM EVM

SM EVM (СМ ЭВМ) was general name for several types of Soviet minicomputers in 1970s and 1980s. Production started in 1975. Most types of SM EVM have been clones of DEC PDP-11 and VAX. The common operating system was MOS, a clone of UNIX...

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OpenVMS

ran on VAX systems, and was later ported to the DEC Alpha and Intel Itanium. History In April, 1975... Star and Starlet projects culminated in the development the VAX 11/780 computer and the VAX-11/VMS... version 2.0 release, to VAX/VMS (at the same time as the VAX-11 computer was renamed to simply VAX...

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Million instructions per second

was compared using VAX MIPS, where computers were measured on a task and their performance rated against the VAX 11/780 that performed a nominal 1 MIPS. (The measure was also known as the "VAX Unit of...

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51-FORTH

-developed from a VAX to an RTX2000 Forth system connected to dual-ported RAM accessible to the...

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Bignum

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