what does it mean OpenVMS ?

[Antoniov.]

No Chris,
doesn't exist a vms version for PC.
HP is developmenting a new version based on Itanium but I'm not sure it'll sell a PC version.

@Antoniov

[Ian Miller.]

you can certainly run VMS at home using the Hobbyist licence. Small second hand VAX and Alpha boxes can be obtained at reasonably cheaply and sometimes free (if people are clearing out)

[Keith Parris]

> does someone use OpenVMS at home, I mean installed on the home PC ?

It's not a requirement that you have VAX or Alpha hardware to run VMS. And it is indeed possible to run VMS on a home PC (though not natively), through the use of a VAX emulator program like the free simh by Bob Supnik or TS-10 by Timothy Stark (or the commercial Charon-VAX). See http://simh.trailing-edge.com/ and http://sourceforge.net/projects/ts10/ and http://www.softresint.com/charon-vax/index.htm, respectively.

You can then run the VAX version of OpenVMS under a Hobbyist license on top of any of these emulators and do so on an x86 home PC running either Windows or Linux.