[Info-vax] VMS on VAXstation 3100 Model 48

[H Vlems]

On 11 jan, 01:47, polemon <cbyr... at cbyrzba.bet> wrote:
> On 10 Jan 2009 23:29:04 GMT
>
> Hans Bachner <H... at Bachner.priv.at> wrote:
> > polemon <cbyr... at cbyrzba.bet> wrote:
> > > I need to be a DECUS member if i want an account there.
>
> > Actually, you will become a Connect member these days
> > (http://www.connect-community.org/), at least in the U.S. and several
> > other countries. DECUS is "migrating" to Connect.
>
> Just applied for a membership, it is indeed rather uncomplicated.
>
> > You can't download the software. If you don't know someone from whom you
> > can borrow the media, you can buy a "Hobbyist CD" with OpenVMS and some
> > Layered Products. Click at the "OpenVMS Media" link at the top of the
> >http://www.openvmshobbyist.com/homepage.
>
> 30 USD isn't actually cheap for a CD, but I'll ask around my university
> if someone happens to have one.
>
> > > The system is ancient, so to say. It is made in 1987, I doubt any
> > > recent OpenVMS will run on it...
>
> > Sure it will. The latest OpenVMS VAX version is V7.3 which will happily
> > run on the VAXstation 3100 (as well as on most older VAX models).
>
> That's certainly reassureing, I was planning to put NetBSD/vax on it'd
> fail to install VMS.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> --polemon
>
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Send me your postal address at hvlems at zonnet dot nl
I'll send you a VAX/VMS 7.3 cd
Hans