21 May
2003
21 May
'03
10:20 a.m.
Jay West wrote:
Ok, I know NOTHING about openVMS. However, this just
came up...
A friend of a friend offered me what he says is a complete set of OpenVMS
media. No manuals, just the media.
The VMS manuals are online at dec^H^H^Hcompaq^H^H^H^H^H^HHP's
web site.
Several questions:
The licenses are available for hobbyest use, but not the media.
You need to be a decus member to get them.
You need both, so grab them.
From what I understand, isn't there some type
of hobbyist free license for
openvms? If so, not sure why I should grab the media
from him if I can just
download it. Or is there a value to getting the media from him, as to it
giving me the ability to purchase a license transfer or something... in
short, is there a special reason getting "real" media is desirable?
Lastly... he said it runs on vax's and pdp's. Not sure if he knows what he's
talking about, so I'll ask here. Could this run on my 11/44?
VMS will NOT run on a PDP-11. At least not without massive changes
to the CPU (add all the VAX instructions, and remove the PDP-11 ones).