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OpenVMS, also known as VMS, is a closed-source operating system that supports time-sharing, batch processing, transaction processing and workstation applications. It was first developed by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1977 and has been ported to run on VAX, Alpha, Itanium and x86-64 platforms.
Learn about the history, classification, phonology, writing and vocabulary of Vietnamese, the national and official language of Vietnam. Vietnamese is a Vietic language in the Austroasiatic family, spoken by 85 million people and influenced by Chinese and French.
Alfred the Great (849-899) was the king of Wessex and later of the Anglo-Saxons. He is known for his military and administrative reforms, his promotion of education and culture, and his translation of religious texts.
Learn about the different shapes and names of brackets or parentheses, the punctuation marks used to isolate a segment of text or data. Find out how they originated, how they are used in mathematics and typography, and how they vary between British and American English.
The film stars Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger and Mélanie Laurent as characters in an alternate history plot to assassinate Nazi leaders. It was a co-production of the United States and Germany, and received positive reviews and multiple awards.
A 14th-century chivalric romance in Middle English, written by an anonymous poet known as the "Gawain Poet". It tells the story of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's court, who accepts a challenge from a mysterious Green Knight and faces various tests of his loyalty and honour.
This is a select bibliography of English-language books (including translations) and journal articles about the history of Ukraine. Book entries have references to journal reviews about them when helpful and available. Additional bibliographies can be found in many of the book-length works listed below.