On 4/29/19 12:45 PM, allison via cctech wrote: > On 04/29/2019 11:37 AM, Jon Elson wrote: >> 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. > > The typical environment during the DEC years '83-93 was a 780 with a > 4-12mb and dozens of users or more.
Unless someone tried to run Ada, then it became a single user system. :-) bill
