[Simh] Andy Hoffman's VMS 4.x packages

[Bob Eager]

We were running V4.5 on 8200s. But nothing earlier.

On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 00:03:05 +0100
Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

> Uh. VMS V4 will most likely not run on the 8200/8250.
> But if you did get it up, you will need the full AME product
> installed in order to run RSX software, as these machines don't have
> hardware PDP-11 compatibility. VMS V4 was right at the time when the
> first hardware appeared which did not have the PDP-11 compatibility
> (MicroVAX). All larger/earlier VAXen had it.
> 
>    Johnny
> 
> On 2020-03-22 21:10, Ray Jewhurst wrote:
> > Just a couple of observations and a question about Andy's distros.  
> > First, they WILL run on a simulated VAX-11 730 if RAM is set to 5 
> > megabytes.  Also, on the 730 all lp behaviour is normal.  Now for
> > my question, is my intuition right in that the RSX package either
> > won't run or simply be useless on the 8200/8250?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Ray
> > 
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