[Info-vax] VMS on a PC

[David J Dachtera]

"faceman28208 at yahoo.com" wrote:
> 
> 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.

Hhmmm... perhaps you are confusing "standard" (no such thing in PC land)
with "commodity" ("off-the-shelf"), in which case I'd have to ask AMD-64
or Itanic?

> 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?

If it's got an Itanic CPU, possibly. Need to check EFI and other things.

> >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.

If you mean "the software formerly known as DECwindows", yes, that's
true. In that case, Fred Kleinsorge(sp?) (lurks here) is your man.

D.J.D.