[Simh] simh/VAX on Windows

[Andrew Warkentin]

Wilm Boerhout wrote:

>on 23-3-2008 23:24 Gregg Levine wrote...
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>>Hello!
>>I am currently planning a project involving SimH with it running
>>probably the latest copy of VMS on the VAX. This will be running on
>>Windows Server 2003.
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>>Is there anything marked down as a "Gotcha!" that I need to lookout for?
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>Well, your SIMH VAX will have the signature of a MicroVAX 3900 (the SIMH 
>VAX 11/780 will most likely not run VMS 8.3) , so don't expect to use 
>features that are not on a 'real' 3900.
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>Furthermore, assuming your project is in the personal research domain, 
>get your OpenVMS Hobbyist license in place. Commercial VMS licenses may 
>not be used on SIMH VAXen.
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>Lastly, have fun! And read the SIMH manuals, they contain useful 
>first-time user information. After that, come back and ask here. Folks 
>are helpful.
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VMS 8.3 doesn't run on VAXen. The last version of VMS to run on VAXen 
was 7.3(-x). I think VMS 7.3 will run on an 11/780, but official support 
was dropped after 6.2.