VMS
     Virtual Memory [operating] System (DEC, OS)

	

	VMS
     Voice Mail System (GMS)

	

	VMS
     Voice Management System

	

	VMS /V-M-S/ n. DEC's proprietary operating system for its VAX
   minicomputer; one of the seven or so environments that loom largest in
   hacker folklore. Many Unix fans generously concede that VMS would
   probably be the hacker's favorite commercial OS if Unix didn't exist;
   though true, this makes VMS fans furious. One major hacker gripe with
   VMS concerns its slowness -- thus the following limerick:

     There once was a system called VMS
     Of cycles by no means abstemious.
          It's chock-full of hacks
          And runs on a VAX
     And makes my poor stomach all squeamious.
                                      --- The Great Quux
  
   See also VAX, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, Unix, runic.

	

	VMS
     
        Virtual Memory System

	

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