[Info-vax] VMS on a PC

[Bill Pechter]

In article <176uZD2KcidF-pn2-dPOWg47JXLzJ at rikki.tavi.co.uk>,
Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> wrote:
>On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:03:31 UTC, "Richard B. Gilbert" 
><rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> faceman28208 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, especially with 64-bits being the current norm.
>> > 
>> 
>> I don't believe that the X86 architecture is capable of running VMS as 
>> we know it!  The hardware is just too different.
>
>Not sure about that...one cvould have a good try!
>
>Did anyone ever play with the DOS-based Wendin 'PC-VMS', many many years
>ago?
>-- 
>Bob Eager
>

Yup... lost my $%$^ disks somewhere, though.

Bill
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