5 Jan
2008
5 Jan
'08
6:56 p.m.
You can get the license for free, but for some reason
HP has decided
not to provide downloads. You can buy hobbyist media for $30, but
that's way more than I've spent getting the system itself and I don't
want to wait for the thing to arrive, so I'm hoping somebody has it up
on FTP somewhere.
AFAIK the DEC/CPQ/HP license never allowed that officially. The big
unfortunate bit about the hobbyist program is that HP has not approved
a v4 hobbyist release with OpenVMS 8.2 yet (been years). There are
differences between V7.3-2 and V8.x that make some software unusable.
On the good side, the licenses are valid for any version of OVMS you
can get your hands on, <OfT>Itanium support has been added to the
hobbyist PAKGEN</OfT>, and the program is still alive!