Having given the VAX/VMS look and feel to a host of alien Unix and other operating systems, Boston Business Computing Ltd, Andover, Massachusetts has now give the treatment to one of Digital Equipment Corp’s own operating systems – its implementation of the Open Software Foundation’s OSF/1. It is offering versions of its VMS-emulation family of software for DEC OSF/1: the products comprise EDT+, VCL, Vbackup, Vnet and Vmail, giving VMS users their familiar look and feel for software development, the user interface, communications, electronic mail, and data storage and retrieval when they move to OSF/1 on the DECstations; available now, licences start at $500 for two users.
