[Info-vax] Simh Licensing question 3900 vs 780

[P. Sture]

In article <4ae890f4$0$1640$703f8584 at textnews.kpn.nl>,
 Wilm Boerhout <w6.boerhout at planet.nl> wrote:

> Bob Koehler mentioned  on 27-10-2009 15:53:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >    When support was dropped for the 11/780, it meant that VMS
> >    Engineering no longer tested on the 11/780, they didn't take time to
> >    rip out the code.  I'd not be suprized if 7.3 boots on a simulated
> >    11/780 and runs just fine.
> 
> It does!
> 

I'll second that, although I haven't exactly thrashed it. I wouldn't be 
surprised if esoteric peripheral hardware didn't work any more of course.
In theory at least, later updates could have trodden on something.

-- 
Paul Sture