[Info-vax] When was the peak of Layered Products

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On 5 Mar, 21:09, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net> wrote:
> urbancamo wrote:
> > So, what was the latest and greatest hardware that VMS 5.5 supported?
> > I'm presuming that it won't run on more recent systems?
>
> VAXes that predate the release of VMS V5.5 should run V5.5 or V5.5-2.
> I'm quite certain that we ran 6000 series machines on V5.5-2.  We may
> have also run 7000 series VAXen under 5.5-2.
>
> I don't think that there were many new VAX models after V5.5-2.  The
> 4000 series MAY have needed V6.1 or V6.2.  For most of us, this stuff is
> ancient history.
>
> This was about the time the Alpha hit the streets, ca. 1996/97.
> Suddenly, the poor old VAX couldn't keep up any longer.  The 9000 series
> MAY have been faster than the early Alphas but the handwriting was on
> the wall for all to see!

>From the release history, 5.5-2 supported the same as 5.5-2HW which
was VAX 7000 model 600, VAX 10000 modem 600, VAX 4000 model 400 and
100, microVAX 3100 model 90 and VAXstations 4000 model 90.
RZ26 was also supported here which may explain why the biggest disk
that the VAXstation 4000m90 could have was the rz26.
5.5-2H4 appears to have added the VAX 4000 model xxxA systems (100A,
500A, 600A and 700A)

I used WPSPlus on a pair of VAX 6000 systems (VAX 6000m430 and
6000m510) to type up my final year project at Liverpool Poly.  Long
time ago now!