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

[Johnny Billquist]

That shows how reliable my brain is...

   Johnny

On 2020-03-23 01:09, Bob Eager wrote:
> 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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