[Simh] VAX/VMS

[Paul Koning]

> On Feb 16, 2016, at 6:49 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> 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... :-)

Nor is it unique at DEC.  Consider RT-11.  And possibly RSX-11/M (I don't know that one well enough -- does it run on an 11/20?)

	paul