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IN the past, Digital Equipment has been successful in pushing its proprietary VMS operating system. Today, however, the company is shouting about its support for open systems - particularly its non-proprietary Digital OSF/1 operating system.

The company is banking on this open architecture and the power of its AXP series' 64-bit platform to keep existing customers and win over other brand users.

''DEC OSF/1 supports more standards than any other operating system,'' said Mr Stephen McIntosh, corporate marketing manager for Digital OSF/1.

Mr McIntosh was in Hongkong last week to address Digital's seminar, Open Systems Open House.

The Asian-region seminars coincide with Digital's release of volume shipments of DEC OSF/1, which it developed in two years and was based on the Open System Foundation's OSF/1 operating system.

''We call it the unified UNIX. It removes all the confusion about what kernel or version of UNIX has been used in an operating system and therefore removes doubt for both the software developer and end user,'' he said.

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