[Simh] OpenVMS Hobbyist Program

[Michael Kerpan]

If running without a valid license is considered an option, then there are
ways to keep running VMS 7.3. Both a PAK generator and a set of
pre-generated perpetual PAKs are floating around in dark corners of the
internet. For strictly private use, odds are that HPE and VSI will pay just
about as much attention to people running pirate VMS on an emulated VAX as
Microsoft pays to people running pirate Windows 3.1 in a PC emulator: none
at all.

That said, it's sad that those of us who are both interested in computer
history and not made of money are yet again being told "either give up your
hobby or become a pirate."

Mike

On Sat, Mar 7, 2020, 7:58 PM Robert Armstrong <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:

>   VMS 4.x is an option for older VAXes, as it predates LMF.  Of course the
> legality of doing that may still be an issue, but there's no technical
> challenge to running it.
>
>   VMS 4.7 supported the MicroVAX-III, but I don't remember for sure if
> it'll work on the 3900 simulated by simh.  Somebody would have to dig up an
> SPD, but in any event it probably wouldn't be a big problem to simulate a
> slightly different model.
>
>   Alphas, OTOH, are a problem.  I don't believe there was ever any non-LMF
> operating system that ran on them....   Well, maybe Windows-NT on the
> Multia UDB?  Nah ... :)
>
> Bob
>
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