[Simh] OpenVMS licenses now transferable to emulators

[Gregg Levine]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Tim Shoppa <shoppa at trailing-edge.com> wrote:
> "Hittner, David (IT)" <david.hittner at ngc.com> wrote:
>> HP has announced that licenses are now transferable (for a fee) to
>> emulators.
>>
>> http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/vax-emulator.html
>>
>> Not the cheapest, but certainly the most legal.
>
> What is moderately interesting is that they not only name the
> three Charon emulators (I honestly didn't know there were three!)
> but also SIMH. It's not perfectly clear which ones are qualified
> by passing the "standard qualification tests" and which ones are not.
>
> They do make it clear that the hardware platform underneath has
> to be made out of HP hardware. Hmm, running SIMH VAX on an HP3000, anyone? :-)
>
> Tim.
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Hello!
It happens that Integrity based (That is the IA64 based processor from
Intel) servers are available in a 1U form factor.


There are also made by HP and as it happens VMS does run on them. The
ones I saw in an advertisement some time ago were wearing a Fedora
release but that's easily replaced with the appropriate VMS build. And
they were being sold cheaply. well at hobbyist prices. for those of us
who have the money. (And the space.)

So ideally the strange idea that HP proposes makes perfect sense, it
only looks strange to us.

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