[Simh] OpenVMS licenses now transferable to emulators

[Toby Thain]

On 9-Feb-09, at 2:26 PM, Robert G. Schaffrath wrote:

> 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.

That's very competent data management, congratulations. :)

--Toby

>
>
> 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:
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>
>>>> PAKs to the new hardware.
>>>>
>>>> Hobbyist PAKs are different; they don't care what the
>>>>
>>> hardware is, so
>>>
>>>> you can use them in an emulator at your convenience.
>>>> However, Hobbyist PAKs are for personal use only. You may
>>>>
>>> not legally
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>> 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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