[Simh] Profesionnal usage of SIMH

[Wilm Boerhout]

on 26-11-2007 12:30 Andrew Back wrote...
> How would you transfer an OpenVMS Base license? Even if you could be legal 
> you certainly wouldn't get support from HP. IIRC Charon Vax is the only 
> supported emulated solution.
>   
Transfering your VMS licence(s) to anything other than a machine 
certified by HP violates the VMS license agreement. For CHARON(VAX/AXP), 
HP sells so called transfer licenses, this makes it legal to run VMS on 
CHARON/* in combination with your original VMS license and a selected 
set of layered products, mentioned in the transfer license. HP sets 
additional constraints on the transfer license, f.i. running on HP 
(Intel/AMD) hardware is mandatory. Your software support contract, if 
any, is also honoured by HP when you purchase the transfer license, but 
only if problems you experience running CHARON can be reproduced on a 
real VAX/Alpha.

So, SIMH is "hobbyist only".

See also http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/sri-charon-vax-emulator.html

Wilm Boerhout