13 Oct
2013
13 Oct
'13
10 a.m.
One day I'll learn to type; till then I will just apologise from time to time for
sending half composed messages (and using a rubbish email client). Sorry!
-- Vax 1000 BA-23
Note that it's possible (probable?) that this is an rtVAX 1000, with a KA620 CPU
board, and possibly no mass storage in the BA23.
The KA620 is closely related to the KA630 (MicroVAX II) with one small but significant
difference.
The rtVAX family (not to be confusbed with the ftVAX) were sold to run DEC's
distributed realtime OS, VAXELN, which could be network booted (or boot from disk). Some
rtVAXes had slightly cut down memory management relative to ordinary VAXes, a
"feature" which meant they'd never run VMS.
Some folk won't mind the distinction, others might.
VAXELN is an interesting piece of software in its own right but doesn't seem to be in
the VMS Hobbyist program.
Regards
John