[Info-vax] Some good news !

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <75mvr2F19ccmaU2 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>> I guess HP's support for obsolete gear is no better than MS's afterall.
> 
>    Athough I understand I was wrong about official support, people who 
>    have MV II in thier cluster have reported right here in c.o.v that it 
>    will boot and run VMS 7.3.  They didn't report having to buy any new 
>    hardware to make that so.  My customer used to own hardware that
>    would have made it so.  
> 
>    Try booting Vista on a PC from the same era.

Why not a Windows version from the same era as VMS 7.3 ?

Try booting VMS 8.3 on the mV-II.


> 
>    As far offically supported, ti seems that ran through 7.2-x or so.
>    Which is kind of like getting Windows XP support on that 80286.
>