Was (wer) ist BSD VAX - definition

FAMILY OF MINICOMPUTERS BY DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION

VAX-11/780; VAX-11/750; VAX-750; VAX 11/750; VAX 11/780; VAX-11/785

Vax (brand)

UK FLOORCARE AND HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE COMPANY WHO DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE VACUUM CLEANERS, CARPET CLEANERS AND CLIMATE CONTROL APPLIANCES.

Alan Brazier (inventor); Vax (vacuum); Nothing sucks like a vax

Vax UK Ltd is a brand that manufactures electrical goods and cleaning products in the floor-care and air treatment sectors, and which has its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The brand is owned by a company called TTI Co.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vax_(brand)

BSD/OS

PROPRIETARY VERSION OF THE BSD OPERATING SYSTEM

BSD/386; BSD386; BSDOS

<operating system> BSDI's commercial version of {Berkeley Standard Distribution} Unix. BSD/OS is a POSIX-compatible, Unix-like system for the 80386, 486, and Pentium. It is based on the BSD software from UCB, a number of other sources, and components engineered by BSDI. The initial production release of BSD/OS shipped in March, 1993. (1996-01-13)

BSD disklabel

DISKLABEL FOR BSD-RELATED OPERATING SYSTEMS

Disk label; Disklabel; BSD disklabels

In BSD-derived computer operating systems (including NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD) and in related operating systems such as SunOS, a disklabel is a record stored on a data storage device such as a hard disk that contains information about the location of the partitions on the disk. Disklabels were introduced in the 4.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_disklabel

Wikipedia

VAX-11

The VAX-11 is a discontinued family of 32-bit superminicomputers, running the Virtual Address eXtension (VAX) instruction set architecture (ISA), developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Development began in 1976. In addition to being powerful machines in their own right, they also offer the additional ability to run user mode PDP-11 code (thus the -11 in VAX-11), offering an upward compatible path for existing customers.

The first machine in the series, the VAX-11/780, was announced in October 1977. Its former competitors in the minicomputer space, like Data General and Hewlett-Packard, were unable to successfully respond to the introduction and rapid update of the VAX design. DEC followed the VAX-11/780 with the lower-cost 11/750, and the even lower cost 11/730 and 11/725 models in 1982. More powerful models, initially known as the VAX-11/790 and VAX-11/795, were instead rebranded as the VAX 8600 series.

The VAX-11 line was discontinued in 1988, having been supplanted by the MicroVAX family on the low end, and the VAX 8000 family on the high end. The VAX-11/780 is historically one of the most successful and studied computers in history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX-11