[Simh] slightly off-topic question

Alan Frisbie frisbie at Flying-Disk.com
Fri Nov 9 09:02:45 EST 2007


> I've seen a few posts where folks have had success running
> Ultrix on SIMH Vax emulation. This led me to wonder-
> Is it possible to rin OpenVMS on old Ultrix hardware?
> I've got a DecStation 5000 in my lab that ran Ultrix- it's
> not been used for much of anything in the last few years, though.
> OpenVMS on "bare iron" would be pretty sweet...

Sorry, you are out of luck with this one.   VMS only runs
on VAX, Alpha, and Itanium hardware.   The DECStation 5000
is, as I recall, a SPARC chip.




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