[Info-vax] VMS on a PC

[H Vlems]

On 13 jan, 03:59, David J Dachtera <djesys... at spam.comcast.net> wrote:
> "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:
>
> > > > 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.

I think he refers to VWS.
Hans