21 May
2003
21 May
'03
10:32 a.m.
Nope. VMS only runs on VAXen, Alphas, and (in the
future perhaps)
Itaniums, While earlier versions of VMS might fit in the memory space of
Actually there is no "in the future" about it, while it's not publically
available, OpenVMS is *RUNNING* on the Itanium 2. In fact one of the HP employee's
just posted the news that they've succeeded in clustering an Alpha running 7.3 with an
Itanium 2 system! The limited public release, for developers, is still a ways away, but
they've made good progress in the last few months since it first booted (plus I
believe they're publicly demoing it in Europe at the moment). More information, and a
timetable should be on the HP OpenVMS site somewhere.
You can run a lot of different OS's on the PDP
still, from RT-11, to
RSX-11, to even some versions of BSD. Oh yes, and don't forget you can
I've run RT-11 and XXDP (Diag's) on my /44. Ideally I'd like to get it up and
running with RSTS/E (an OS I think Jay would like), but I don't need to worry about
that at the moment as don't have access to it (Oh, well, my /73 is configured better)
run standalone things that don't require an OS,
too. That's why they put
those wonderful toggle switches on the front of the cPU :). Now I just
wish I had a machine with some...
Um, I'm afraid a /44 doesn't have toggle switches, it has one of the plainest
fronts of all of the Unibus systems (like the /84 and /94).
Zane
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