VMS and supported VAX hardware

[Christian Gauger-Cosgrove]

On 3 October 2015 at 18:51, Johnny Billquist <bqt at update.uu.se> wrote:
> As far as I can remember, none of the VAX-11 models were officially
> supported by OpenVMS 7.3. The oldest model that were supported (if I
> remember right) was the VAX 86x0.

Glen Slick posted the official list of what was supported and what had
support dropped for it. However…:
$ sho cpu

NEBULA, a VAX-11/730
Multiprocessing is DISABLED. Uniprocessing synchronization image loaded.

PRIMARY CPU = 00
Active CPUs:      00
Configured CPUs:  00
$ sho mem
              System Memory Resources on  3-OCT-2015 23:21:43.53

Physical Memory Usage (pages):     Total        Free      In Use    Modified
  Main Memory (5.00Mb)             10240        3704        6439          97

Virtual I/O Cache Usage (pages):   Total        Free      In Use     Maximum
  Cache Memory                       347           0         347        3819

Slot Usage (slots):                Total        Free    Resident     Swapped
  Process Entry Slots                 80          70          10           0
  Balance Set Slots                   17           9           8           0

Dynamic Memory Usage (bytes):      Total        Free      In Use     Largest
  Nonpaged Dynamic Memory         765440      341248      424192      233984
  Paged Dynamic Memory            558080      431888      126192      431440

Paging File Usage (pages):                      Free  Reservable       Total
  DISK$OVMSVAXSYS:[SYS0.SYSEXE]SWAPFILE.SYS
                                                1008        1008        1008
  DISK$OVMSVAXSYS:[SYS0.SYSEXE]PAGEFILE.SYS
                                               31985       17850       34000

Of the physical pages in use, 4063 pages are permanently allocated to OpenVMS.
$ sho sys
OpenVMS V7.3  on node NEBULA   3-OCT-2015 23:21:48.08  Uptime  0 00:12:13
  Pid    Process Name    State  Pri      I/O       CPU       Page flts  Pages
00000081 SWAPPER         HIB     16        0   0 00:00:00.04         0      0
00000084 CONFIGURE       HIB      8       10   0 00:00:00.01       113    158
00000086 IPCACP          HIB     10        6   0 00:00:00.01       128     95
00000087 ERRFMT          HIB      8       32   0 00:00:00.02       145    211
00000089 OPCOM           HIB      8       52   0 00:00:00.03       327     96
0000008A AUDIT_SERVER    HIB     10       68   0 00:00:00.09       690    488
0000008B JOB_CONTROL     HIB     10       27   0 00:00:00.02       191    200
0000008C SECURITY_SERVER HIB     10       32   0 00:00:00.09      2533    456
0000008E SYSTEM          CUR      7      544   0 00:00:02.39      3769    349
$

So yes, [Open]VMS 7.3 will run on a VAX-11 series VAX. And probably
even on a microVAX as well (though I haven't tried).



That's SIMH, by the way, not a real 11/730. (Unfortunately.)


Cheers,
Christian
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Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove
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