[Simh] OpenVMS licenses now transferable to emulators

[Robert G. Schaffrath]

It is quite impressive to have what would have been several refrigerator 
sized pieces of equipment reduced to a laptop PC with perhaps more 
performance.  Many years ago my pride and joy at work was a departmental 
VAX 6330 with an expansion cabinet, eight RA82's and four RA90's.  To 
think I can easily equal that on a netbook sized laptop and have it do 
other things simultaneously is truly amazing.  These days I do not spend 
much time in my emulated VMS V5.5-2 system unless I am feeling 
nostalgic.  I was lucky enough to have been able to migrate my MAIL.MAI 
files through successive jobs (via TK50's) so I still have the ability 
to read emails from my first VMS job dating to 1986.  About two years 
ago I actually copied and replied to one of the messages from an old 
friend and blew his socks off when he saw the date and the subject matter.

Robert Schaffrath

Hittner, David T (IT) wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com 
>> [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Michael Kerpan
>> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 12:55 PM
>> To: simh at trailing-edge.com
>> Subject: Re: [Simh] OpenVMS licenses now transferable to emulators
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Hittner, David T (IT) 
>> <david.hittner at ngc.com> wrote:
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>>> No; Digital/Compaq/HP PAKs are legally bound to the hardware system 
>>> that they were issued for.
>>> If you replace the hardware, you have to pay to 
>>>       
>> transfer/upgrade the 
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>>> PAKs to the new hardware.
>>>
>>> Hobbyist PAKs are different; they don't care what the 
>>>       
>> hardware is, so 
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>>> you can use them in an emulator at your convenience.
>>> However, Hobbyist PAKs are for personal use only. You may 
>>>       
>> not legally 
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>>> run them to deliver a corporate service.
>>>
>>> This announcement allows you to legally transfer older 
>>>       
>> hardware-bound 
>>     
>>> PAKs to the new "hardware" of a software emulator.
>>> I could use this new method to transfer my $40K corporate software 
>>> license asset to an emulator.
>>>
>>> Dave
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>> Ahh, so hobbyist PAKs are more different from real PAKs than 
>> I'd though. Unless you're a buisness, they're MUCH nicer ;)
>>
>> Anyway, how many VUPS does a SIMH VAX on semi-modern stock 
>> hardware have compared to the fastest real VAXen? Is there 
>> any good way to find out?
>>
>> Mike
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> A VAX simulator on modern hardware easily blows away the fastest
> single-cpu VAX, and most of the multi-cpu systems.
> You can get the VUPS command file estimator VUPS.COM from various places
> on the internet.
> SRI/StromaSys also has the performance test PT_VAX.EXE estimator
> available, and lists of comparative emulator performance levels.
>
> Dave
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