[Simh] OpenVMS Hobbyist Program

[Tony Nicholson]

On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 11:39 AM Hunter Goatley <goathunter at goatley.com>
wrote:

> [snip]
>
> I had hoped that HPE would release non-expiring VAX PAKs, because why
> not? They're out of the game, and no one else has the code for VAX. But
> they apparently aren't going to do that, which effectively ends SIMH,
> VAX, and Alpha for all but commercial use with purchased commercial
> licenses.
>

Layered product license PAKs for Alpha and VAX are common for products
available
for the hobbyist program.  That may be the reason why they couldn't issue
non-expiring licenses for VAX - because they'd be non-expiring for Alpha
too!

A VAX-VMS license PAK without layered products would be useless (to me).

Tony

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Tony Nicholson <tony.nicholson at computer.org>
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