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

[Ray Jewhurst]

So I am trying to get this package to work on as many systems as possible
and now I wonder if on the VAXStation 2000 or 2 if there are are any copies
of VWS floating around. Simh is I guess is a really good way to handle
shelter in place...

Ray

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020, 8:39 PM Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

> 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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