[Info-vax] VMS on a PC

[johnhreinhardt at yahoo.com]

On Jan 11, 11:48 am, "faceman28... at yahoo.com" <faceman28... at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> On Jan 11, 1:05 am, David J Dachtera <djesys... at spam.comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
> > "faceman28... at yahoo.com" wrote:

> 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?

Nope. No version of OpenVMS runs on an off the shelf PC.

You can, however, as mentioned before take an off the shelf PC,
install simh-11 for a VAX emulator and run OpenVMS on that. But you
are limited to V7.3 which is quite old and many improvements have been
made.  Or install PersonalAlpha and install a newer version (currently
V8.3-1h).  But the free version of PersonalAlpha is somewhat limited
as I recall.