[Info-vax] HOW TO for Personal Alpha / VMS Hobbyist ?

[Stanley F. Quayle]

On 17 Jan 2009 at 10:51, Didier_Toulouse wrote:
> Personal Alpha 2.0.16 up and running. I booted from the OpenVMS Hobbyist CD
> ref DFW004 (c) 1999 DFWCUG (VMS 7.2) 
> 
> Now I have to deal with licensing, if my memory is good :-)

It's just like any other Alpha -- you will definitely need one or more licenses.  If 
you're doing this as Hobbyist, you can get them from the Hobbyist program.  If you're 
doing software development, you can join HP's DSPP program (for free) and get licenses 
that way.

You can always log in from the console without any licenses.  But the only compiler that 
comes with VMS is VAX MACRO.

Of course, if you're using this for a production application, you'll need to buy "real" 
(permanent) licenses ($$$).  You can't transfer the licenses from a real Alpha to 
PersonalAlpha legally, even if you wanted to spend the ~$2k to do so.  You'd have to use 
the CHARON-AXP product:

     http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/sri-charon-vax-emulator.html

[Shameless Plug Alert (tm) -- I am a CHARON-AXP reseller.]

--Stan Quayle
Quayle Consulting Inc.

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