[Info-vax] VMS on a PC

[faceman28208 at yahoo.com]

On Jan 11, 1:05 am, David J Dachtera <djesys... at spam.comcast.net>
wrote:
> "faceman28... 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,
>
> Depends how you define "a standard PC".

One you can find on the shelf at Best Buy. Possibly with the
requirement that it be a 64-bit model.

Can I go to Best Buy; pick up a 64-bit...say...HP....PC; and install a
native version of VMS on it with the same degree of ease as  I could
Linux?

>And just why should they go back and downgrade their GUI
>to a VT100 ?

We had graphical user interfaces with overlayed windows on VMS in the
1980's.