[Info-vax] VMS on a PC

[faceman28208 at yahoo.com]

On Jan 11, 12:30 pm, "johnhreinha... at yahoo.com"
<johnhreinha... 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.

Maybe in another 10 years someone else will ask the same question yet
another time. It sounds like HP has consigned VMS to a slow death
rather than treat it as an asset.