[Info-vax] VMS on a PC

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <6ZGdnWd5d77bN_XUnZ2dnUVZ_jmdnZ2d at giganews.com>,
	"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> faceman28208 at yahoo.com wrote:
>> Having not touched a VMS system since I left DEC, I was wondering if
>> HP had yet bothered to create a version of it that would run on a
>> standard PC, especially with 64-bits being the current norm.
>> 
> 
> I don't believe that the X86 architecture is capable of running VMS as 
> we know it!  The hardware is just too different.

Actually, I believe that myth was put to rest a long time ago.
VMS was never ported to x86 (or now, the 64bit version) strictly
because its owners chose not to.

> 
>> I searched through the archives and found this same question asked a
>> decade ago.
>> 
>> I still find it amazing the M$ has not caught up to where VMS was 25
>> years ago.
> 
> What makes you think that M$ *wants* to be where VMS was 25 years ago?

Yeah, way too advanced for MS.

But to really answer his question.  One can run VMS on the VAX emulation
of SIMH.  The Hobbyist program provides the needed licenses and can also
provide the software at a very reasonable price.

bill

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