[Simh] SimH License Transfers

[bsupnik at comcast.net]

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Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:33:54 +0000
From: Peter Moreton <petermoreton at hotmail.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Simh] trying to get the OpenVMS 7.1 CD to boot
To: Frederik Meerwaldt <frederik at freddym.org>
Cc: simh at trailing-edge.com
Message-ID: <BAY136-W12A15700C56C400C88BFBC84F40 at phx.gbl>
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Thanks Freddy,
 
Boot DUA1: does work fine, and I now have VMS 7.1 running very nicely indeed. On 
a quad 2.2Ghz Opteron machine, the performance is quite stunning, and it just 
goes to show how insanely fast modern CPU's are (and what appalling pieces of bloatware XP and worse, Vista are!!) 
 
What are the licensing issues surrounding SIMH ? (and similarly, CHARON) - if 
someone has a licensed VAX, can they take the environment to SIMH, including 
license keys, and run from this, legally?

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HP's position is that SimH is not a supported platform for VMS commercial use.  Commercial customers cannot transfer their existing license keys to SimH.  The stated reason is that SimH has not been qualified (that is, tested by HP) and that it is not a product with formal support (very true).

That said, any hobbyist can obtain a hobbyist license to VMS and its layered products, to run VMS for non-commercial use ONLY on SimH.

/Bob Supnik