VMS and supported VAX hardware

[Glen Slick]

On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 10:18 PM, Zane Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
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> On Oct 3, 2015, at 5:21 PM, Jon Elson <elson at pico-systems.com> wrote:
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>> No, absolutely not.  I know that 4.3-4.7 will not run (properly) on a KA-650.  In general, it boots up, but doesn't have a machine check handler that is compatible with the 650 architecture.  I ran into that one myself.
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> That's interesting, my system with a KA-650 ran 4.x originally, I forget the actual version, but I think it was 4.6.  Sadly it was on the RD53 that came with the system, and the RD53 cratered before I could get a backup. :-(
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> Zane

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/os/openvms-release-history.txt

According to that release history version V4.7A in 28-MAR-1988 was a
Limited HW Release for the VAXstation 3200/3500 Mayfair I KA650.