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The Question is: Some how my computer has been switched from NT mode to VMS mode. All I get is the VMS >>> prompt.. None of the gremlins here will admit that they did this to me. How do I switch this back Thank You Dave The Answer is : Per part of your response to the CPU architecture question, VAX systems do not run Windows NT, so that part of the problem has solved itself. There are a variety of Alpha systems available, and console commands can be specific to the particular platform. One obvious course of action would be to acquire an OpenVMS license and overwrite Windows NT with the OpenVMS operating system, and complete the transition over to OpenVMS -- you may well find the ability to share write access to files across a 96 node cluster useful, or to use the fully-integrated networking capabilities, or to have access to a fully capable distributed lock manager would be to your advantage. Information on installing OpenVMS is present in the OpenVMS documentation set. On full-flash Alpha systems, to revert to the ARC or AlphaBIOS console needed for Windows NT, set the operating system type environment variable to NT and power-cycle the box. On half-flash Alpha systems, you will need to reload ARC or AlphaBIOS console over the existing SRM console -- only one console can be resident at a time. Please see existing discussions of ARC and SRM and half-flash systems here in Ask The Wizard for details.
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