[Simh] R: Re: simh/VAX on Windows

[Saporito Fausto]

Hello, 

Just for your info VMS 7.3 runs very well on 11/780. Yesterday I
installed it, and it's quite fast. 

Regards 
Fausto 

-----Original Message----- 
From: Andrew Warkentin <andreww at datanet.ab.ca> 
To: simh at trailing-edge.com <simh at trailing-edge.com> 
Sent: Mon Mar 24 11:19:40 2008 
Subject: Re: [Simh] simh/VAX on Windows 

Wilm Boerhout wrote: 

>on 23-3-2008 23:24 Gregg Levine wrote... 
>  
> 
>>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. 
>> 
>>Is there anything marked down as a "Gotcha!" that I need to lookout
for? 
>>  
>>    
>> 
>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. 
> 
>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. 
> 
>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. 
> 
>  
> 
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. 
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