Codenames for OpenVMS releases

The following are various release codenames for OpenVMS releases, for both the VAX and Alpha platforms:

The order in the table is roughly that of the timing of the releases. (As examples of this, the OpenVMS Alpha V6.2-1Hx releases post-dated the V7.0 release, and the OpenVMS VAX V5.5-2Hx releases post-dated the V6.0 release.)

Functional equivilence was reached at V6.1, with OpenVMS Alpha continuing to parallel OpenVMS VAX releases, and with OpenVMS Alpha adding various features not available on OpenVMS VAX, such as 64 bit virtual addressing, in releases after V6.1.

Release codenames were not generally used prior to the V5.4 release, and were not universally used on OpenVMS projects until roughly V6.0.

The terms "VMS" and "VAX/VMS" were replaced with "OpenVMS" and "OpenVMS VAX" at the V5.5 release. "AXP" and "OpenVMS AXP" were added.

"AXP" and "OpenVMS AXP" were replaced with "Alpha" and "OpenVMS Alpha" at the V6.2 release.

OpenVMS release codenames for releases that never shipped, or that were consolidated into other releases were omitted from this list.

The contents of this page was provided by Hoff (Stephen) Hoffman

Some additional background information on the OpenVMS release history can be found on the OpenVMS Webserver of Digital/Compaq.

Comments to: Martin P.J. Zinser
Last modified: 20030728