[Simh] VAX/VMS

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-02-16 07:57, Wilm Boerhout wrote:
> Zane Healy schreef op 15-2-2016 om 18:20:
>
> [snip]
>
>> There are plenty of good VAX and VMS manuals out there, including the
>> documentation set.  Check eBay and abebooks.com.
>>
>> The last version of VMS that will run on a VAX is v7.3.
>>
>> Zane
> More precisely, V7.3 will run on *any* VAX, including the primal
> VAX-11/780. This level of backwards compatibility is unique.

No, it is not. Talk to IBM about S/360... :-)
And there are some VAXen on which V7.3 will definitely not run. How 
about rtVAX for example.

> The other way around, each "newer" VAX in general needs a minimum
> version of VMS to run. Sometimes special "hardware releases" were issued
> (such as V5.5-H2) to support a new VAX model or variant.

Right.

	Johnny