VMS and supported VAX hardware

On 3 October 2015 at 18:51, Johnny Billquist <bqt at update.uu.se> wrote: Glen Slick posted the official list of what was supported and what had support dropped for it. However?: $ sho cpu NEBULA, a VAX-11/730 Multiprocessing is DISABLED. Uniprocessing synchronization image loaded. PRIMARY CPU = 00 Active CPUs: 00 Configured CPUs: 00 $ sho mem System Memory Resources on 3-OCT-2015 23:21:43.53 Physical Memory Usage (pages): Total Free In Use Modified Main Memory (5.00Mb) 10240 3704 6439 97 Virtual I/O Cache Usage (pages): Total Free In Use Maximum Cache Memory 347 0 347 3819 Slot Usage (slots): Total Free Resident Swapped Process Entry Slots 80 70 10 0 Balance Set Slots 17 9 8 0 Dynamic Memory Usage (bytes): Total Free In Use Largest Nonpaged Dynamic Memory 765440 341248 424192 233984 Paged Dynamic Memory 558080 431888 126192 431440 Paging File Usage (pages): Free Reservable Total DISK$OVMSVAXSYS:[SYS0.SYSEXE]SWAPFILE.SYS 1008 1008 1008 DISK$OVMSVAXSYS:[SYS0.SYSEXE]PAGEFILE.SYS 31985 17850 34000 Of the physical pages in use, 4063 pages are permanently allocated to OpenVMS. $ sho sys OpenVMS V7.3 on node NEBULA 3-OCT-2015 23:21:48.08 Uptime 0 00:12:13 Pid Process Name State Pri I/O CPU Page flts Pages 00000081 SWAPPER HIB 16 0 0 00:00:00.04 0 0 00000084 CONFIGURE HIB 8 10 0 00:00:00.01 113 158 00000086 IPCACP HIB 10 6 0 00:00:00.01 128 95 00000087 ERRFMT HIB 8 32 0 00:00:00.02 145 211 00000089 OPCOM HIB 8 52 0 00:00:00.03 327 96 0000008A AUDIT_SERVER HIB 10 68 0 00:00:00.09 690 488 0000008B JOB_CONTROL HIB 10 27 0 00:00:00.02 191 200 0000008C SECURITY_SERVER HIB 10 32 0 00:00:00.09 2533 456 0000008E SYSTEM CUR 7 544 0 00:00:02.39 3769 349 $ So yes, [Open]VMS 7.3 will run on a VAX-11 series VAX. And probably even on a microVAX as well (though I haven't tried). That's SIMH, by the way, not a real 11/730. (Unfortunately.) Cheers, Christian -- Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove STCKON08DS0 Contact information available upon request.