On 04/29/2019 06:47 AM, allison via cctech wrote:
On 04/28/2019 09:28 PM, Grant Taylor via cctech wrote:
On 4/28/19 6:27 PM, Ray Jewhurst wrote:
I already have a Hobbyist License. I am just interested in
experimenting with different OSes and different versions of OSes.
ACK
I don't know what VAX hardware VMS 1.5 supported, what VAX hardware
that Simh supports, or what the overlap is between the two.
There's a reasonable chance that someone will chime in with experience.
You are limited to what the VAX-11/780 system had for peripherals and
typically under 8MB ram (it maxed at 16mb).
Well, for command-line computing (well, this IS the classic
computing list) you can do a lot.
Our first 11/780 had half a megabyte of memory. Friday
afternoon one memory board went bad, and I pulled it out. A
user group ran a gigantic batch job of mechanical analysis
over the weekend on 256 K! I was amazed, I really thought
it would thrash itself to death on that.
I ran a microVAX-II at home on one meg for years.
But, I never experienced VMS before about version 3.4, I
think. I'd really hate to run any VMS that didn't have
loadable device drivers. Doing the brute force sysgens was
so RSX-11 ish.
I think VMS 1.5 still had a bunch of utilities running in
PDP-11 emulation.
Jon
