MicroVax II/VMS - why 70mb isn't enough. - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

19 Aug 2007

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Subject: Re: MicroVax II/VMS - why 70mb isn't enough.
   From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
   Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 09:45:16 -0700
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At 6:08 AM -0700 8/19/07, Mr Ian Primus wrote:
 There has
to be a way to get an OS onto a Vax in 70 megabytes. 
You don't mention *what* version of VMS.  If you go with VAX/VMS 
V5.5-2 (Hobbyist V1 CD-ROM) it is possible to fit it onto a 70MB 
disk, though you'll have to leave some stuff out as I recall.  It is 
a pretty tight fit.  If you could get ahold of MicroVMS V4.x it would 
definitely fit (I have no idea where to find a copy).

	Zane 
VM5.5 will fit if you leave out DECwindows and some of the language support.
It will fit better is you can put in another (even if only 20MB) for files
as then you can move the page and swap files to there and buy some space.

Allison