26 May
2011
26 May
'11
3:54 p.m.
I've always liked ver 5.4 it seems like the sweet spot for VMS
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On May 26, 2011, at 5:21 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 5/26/11 4:44 PM, Michael Kerpan wrote:
If you follow the SIMH list at all, you may have
heard that the
preliminary version of a VAXstation 2000 emulator has been released
upon the world.
This is great news!
Judging from what I've heard on the VMS
newsgroup, a
system like that really works best with an older (4.x-era) version of
VMS along with the VWS workstation software.
This is very true. I've run both 4.7 and 5.x on 78032-based hardware, and the
performance between 4.7 and 5.0 (in particular) is like night and day. 5.1 sped things up
a little, but it never was as fast as 4.7.
I've been able to find
DECtape II images of an upgrade only version of VMS 4.7 for use with
an 11/750, but can't seem to find anything that has the whole hog?
Does anybody know of a place where TK50 images of VMS/MicroVMS 4.7 as
well as a few other basics like VWS and maybe Pascal or Fortran or
BASIC might be found? Ideally, I'd like to get the setup process
written up and a few screenshots made for the curious, so any help
that can get me started would be most apprectiated.
This won't help you right now, but I do have what you're looking for. I
won't be able to get to those tapes for at least a month, perhaps two. If you still
haven't found that stuff by that time. ping me and I'll see if I can help you out.
I have to get moved, sort all of my stuff, and then put together a system with a
functioning TK50 drive (a tough prospect even with as many TK drives as I have) and make
images.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL