2 Jan
2002
2 Jan
'02
2:22 a.m.
If one wanted to be "historically correct",
which version
would have been on a MicroVAX II during the time they
were in production? How would you now get that version
on a TK50 tape?
Well MicroVMS V1.0 was (IIRC) based on
VAX/VMS V4.0 with some bits cut out.
That probably shipped with the MicroVAX I.
The MicroVAX II came hot on its heels
(again, IIRC) so an early MicroVMS would
be appropriate. Good luck finding one.
By the time we were running our LAVC
with a MicroVAX II and a VS2000 in
1987 in the UK, VAX/VMS V4.5 was current
and shipped with our MicroVAX II. It
needed to be upgraded to either V4.5B
or V4.5C to support the VS2K or the
VS2K in a LAVC (I forget the exact issue,
I do remember it was the first upgrade
that I ever did).
Antonio
2 Jan
2 Jan
5:10 a.m.
--- "Carlini, Antonio" <Antonio.Carlini(a)riverstonenet.com> wrote:
Well MicroVMS V1.0 was (IIRC) based on
VAX/VMS V4.0 with some bits cut out.
That probably shipped with the MicroVAX I.
The MicroVAX II came hot on its heels
(again, IIRC) so an early MicroVMS would
be appropriate. Good luck finding one.
I have some stuff on RX50, but where I worked, they tended to
recycle distribution diskettes (since blanks were expensive)
so I doubt I have a complete set of anything truely ancient,
but I can see what I _do_ have. I should probably start
going through the boxes and boxes of diskettes (I already
have started going through the boxes and boxes of TU58s).
We had a uVAX-I when they were new, new, new. We also paid $17K
to upgrade one to a uVAX-II. Still got both. I would have to
fire up the uVAX-I to see what OS is on it, but I'm fairly certain
it's on an RD52 (I don't think it's an RD51, but it could be. No
way it could be an RD-53 - it has an RQDX1)
-ethan
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6:52 a.m.
Thank you everyone for the followups to my inquiry.
I did some deep searching at the compaq site and came
up with some good details to supplement what others have
posted.
Here is a link to a pdf document:
http://www.openvms.compaq.com/openvms/20th/vmsbook.pdf
According to the book...
"1985"
"MicroVAX chip introduced for the MicroVAX II,
DIGITALS first 32-bit microprocessor."
"VMS V4.2 shipped."
It's nice to see others have kept MVII's up and
running. It may be a challenge getting it all booted
up and such but I sense it will be good and stable
once it is running.
Bill
Amsterdam, NL
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 08:10:04AM -0800, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I have some stuff on RX50, but where I worked, they tended to
recycle distribution diskettes (since blanks were expensive)
so I doubt I have a complete set of anything truely ancient,
but I can see what I _do_ have. I should probably start
going through the boxes and boxes of diskettes (I already
have started going through the boxes and boxes of TU58s).
We had a uVAX-I when they were new, new, new. We also paid $17K
to upgrade one to a uVAX-II. Still got both. I would have to
fire up the uVAX-I to see what OS is on it, but I'm fairly certain
it's on an RD52 (I don't think it's an RD51, but it could be. No
way it could be an RD-53 - it has an RQDX1)
6:40 a.m.
According to the book...
"1985"
"MicroVAX chip introduced for the MicroVAX II,
DIGITALS first 32-bit microprocessor."
"VMS V4.2 shipped."
Page 60 of the book also shows that VMS V4.1, introduced
Sept. 1984, was the first version to support the MicroVAX I/II
processors. It also suggests that it was the first version to
support VAXclusters.
Jeff
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8:48 a.m.
According to
the book...
"1985"
"MicroVAX chip introduced for the MicroVAX II,
DIGITALS first 32-bit microprocessor."
"VMS V4.2 shipped."
Page 60 of the book also shows that VMS V4.1, introduced
Sept. 1984, was the first version to support the MicroVAX I/II
processors. It also suggests that it was the first version to
support VAXclusters.
Jeff
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8:23 p.m.
At 01:40 PM 2/01/2002 -0400, Jeff Hellige wrote:
Page 60 of the book also shows that VMS V4.1,
introduced Sept.
1984, was the first version to support the MicroVAX I/II processors. It
also suggests that it was the first version to support VAXclusters.
I think VAX/VMS 3.7 had support for clusters (from what I heard from
someone here in Australia trying to set up a cluster using this version, it
might not actually have worked though). I didn't get to build my first
cluster until later (I had one of the first LAVCs here in Australia - well
before the documentation stopped talking about CI).
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