[Info-vax] VMS on a PC

Bob Eager rde42 at spamcop.net
Sat Jan 10 12:06:49 EST 2009


On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:03:31 UTC, "Richard B. Gilbert" 
<rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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.

Not sure about that...one cvould have a good try!

Did anyone ever play with the DOS-based Wendin 'PC-VMS', many many years
ago?
-- 
Bob Eager




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