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Re:How Unix made it to the top by nomadic_09 on Monday December 19, 2016 @01:09AM (#13209765)
I risk sounding ignorant, but what does 'VMS' stand for?

I tried googling--led to several different results for VMS.

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Re:How Unix made it to the top by grzm on Monday December 19, 2016 @01:43AM (#13209859)
VMS (virtual memory system) was the OS that ran on Digital's VAX machines. Your sibling comments have more info as well.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS

- http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/vms_vs_unix.html

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