[Info-vax] Good/best version of (Open)VMS for a VAXstation 2000?

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 5/25/2011 2:20 PM, Steven Schweda wrote:
> On May 25, 10:09 am, "Mike K."<madcrow.maxw... at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Recently an emulator of the VAXstation 2000 has become available on
>> the 'Net and as I'd like to try out some of the actual VAX graphics
>> software that using it should make possible, I'm wondering if anybody
>> knows what version of (Open)VMS should fit best onto a system with
>> only 14 MB of RAM...
>
>     My real VAXstation 2000 runs (walks?) VMS V5.5-2 with
> DECwindows Motif 1.1 (?).  With only 6MB of memory, and a
> none-too-speedy RD54 disk, it's a little bit slow to start up.
> In an emulated environment with more memory and/or a
> faster/bigger "disk", what could go wrong?
>
>     VMS V5.5-2, the last of the V5's, has some features which
> earlier versions lack.


Walks???  How about crawls!  I had one many years ago.  It belonged to 
my employer.  It was better than nothing but not much!  The sooner 
forgotten, the better!!!!!!