[Info-vax] OpenVMS Hobbyist licence - howto

[JF Mezei]

Michael Kraemer wrote:

> People say it's 1GB due to firmware limitations

The 1GB limitation applies only to the boot drive. This is because (if I
remember correctly) VMS uses the firmware to mount the boot drive,
whereas it uses it own drivers to mount subsequent drives.

The other story I heard is that as long as pagefiles and more
importantlt dump files are within the first 1gb, you will be OK, because
 of tye cases where the system crashes and uses the firmare to write the
memory contents to the dump file. (and if those files are located beyond
the first 1gb, the firmware overwrites other files).