NERD ON THE STREET

NERD ON THE STREET

For those who remember and revere it, the venerable VMS operating system will be getting new life thanks to Compaq Computer. The owner of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) will upgrade the operating system, once tied to DEC's VAX hardware, with OpenVMS, version 7.2, expected to be ready early next year.

The revamped VMS will offer support for Microsoft's Component Object Model, which paves the way for closer ties to Windows NT, the OS developed by a former DEC employee. Among the other

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