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VAX: The VAX acronym is derived from Virtual Address eXtension.

The VAX computer is designed to use memory addresses beyond

the hardware's actual limits, enabling it to handle pro-

grams that are too large to fit into physical memory. The

VAX computer system is a member of the Digital Equipment

Corporation (DEC) computer family. Currently the VAX

series includes models spanning the desktop VAX station to

mainframe class multi-CPU VAX processors. These vary from

the superminis, like MicroVAX, to the older, moderate sized

11/7XX series, to the newer 6000 series. These computer

systems commonly use an operating system known as VMS.

VMS: The VMS acronym is for Virtual Memory System. The operands

of VMS are very similar to other operating systems. Back

in the days of stand-alone computer systems, DEC had the

idea for streamlining the operation of their computers for

business and engineering. It conceived VMS as a way of

allowing the basic computer management to be done by a user

familiar with any of the multiple systems it made.

DCL: The DCL acronym is for Digital Command Language. It is the

fundamental language of the VMS. Those of you who have an

IBM system, you can think of a DCL program like a batch

file. You can do a lot with it (much more than a PC-DOS or

MS-DOS batch) but it work basically the same way. One

difference is that when you want to execute anything as if

you were typing it in at the command prompt, you first must

put a "$" in front of the command in the DCL program. DCL

programs are commonly called COM files as well. When you

are not executing a COM or DCL program file, you are almost

always typing things into the DCL processor.