[Simh] Is it possible to simulate the first Vaxen I ever used?

[Johnny Billquist]

VAX-11/730 with a PDP-8 FEP would have been a rather odd creature.

But VMS V2.4 sounds plausible for 1978. V3 or V4 feels like they should 
have been later.

The VAX-11/782 was actually a multiprocessor VAX-11/780. Shared memory, 
but it was ASMP. Simh cannot emulate that one. However, you'll get 
mostly the same feeling with just a VAX-11/780 instead.

There are no license manager for such old versions of VMS, so they will 
run no matter if you have PAKs or not.

The FORTRAN compiler was, I would guess, FORTRAN-IV-PLUS. Which was a 
DEC variant. Essentially FORTRAN-IV on stereoids. Lots of things that 
was in there eventually turned up in FORTRAN-77 as well.

And yes, I think most people agree it is "Vaxen".

   Johnny

On 2020-03-23 01:20, Dan Gahlinger wrote:
> I believe it was a Vax 730 with a PDP-8 FEP, inside the main chassis it 
> actually had a part labelled (in big letters) "FUBAR" 🙂
> 
> If I remember correctly, it ran VMS v2.4
> 
> The Vax I have the most memories of though, which I'd also like to simulate,
> was a Vax 782 (two 780s clustered I believe), and I'm not entirely sure 
> of the VMS version, could be v3.2 or v4.2
> 
> People here would know which version was most likely in (guessing mid) 
> 1978 in North America (Ontario/Canada at Western University (UWO)).
> I have lots of printouts, but I'm not sure I ever captured the version.
> 
> Of course, I'll need the VMS images (which I may have) and the PAKs for 
> these versions...
> 
> For sentimental/nostalgic purposes...
> 
> I remember Fortran on the 782 was kinda wonky at the time, it didn't 
> seem to be able to make up its mind whether it was Fortran/IV or 
> Fortran-77 🙂
> 
> Note: someone decades ago told me the plural for Vax was "Vaxen", and it 
> just stuck...
> 
> Dan.
> 
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