High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HP BASIC for OpenVMS is the latest name for a dialect of the BASIC programming language created by Digital Equipment Corporation and now owned by Hewlett-Packard. Although it was developed before VMS on the PDP-11 platform, it was later ported to VMS on VAX then OpenVMS on Alpha. It has recently been ported to OpenVMS on Integrity (HP`s name for servers based upon Itanium processors from Intel).