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

[Hans Vlems]

On 28 mei, 19:54, Henry Crun <m... at rechtman.com> wrote:
> On 28/05/11 17:06, Mike K. wrote:> Just a quick update for anybody who cares: thanks to some help from
> > the SIMH list, I was able to get a copy of 5.4 running DECwindows up
> > and running. In general, the performance is quite snappy (unlike the
> > real thing) but the lack of disk space is a real killer. If anyone has
> > an unused license for VWS lying around, I'd appreciate the donation so
> > that I can at least make some screenshots or something to donate to
> > Toastytech. Also, if anyone has a documentation disk from the 5.4 era,
> > I'm desperately in need of it as my 5.4 (December 1990 IIRC) condist
> > doesn't have any docs except for the SPDs and Install guides of the
> > various products included.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Mike
>
> When did licenses come in? IIRC there were no licenses on V5.4
>
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That's another reason to run VMS V4.7: no licenses because they got
introduced with VMS V5.0.
Until that version, DEC relied on the availability of media, actually
the absence thereof.
If you had a tape with, say, a Pascal compiler then all you had to do
was install it and it would run.
Manuals were not provided on the tape, so you'd need to find a source
for them.
Integrated products were enabled by special kits. Like DECnet that
merely installed an executable
and patched another (IIRC). BTW these kits are avaialble on the
freeware cd's.
So V4.7 is the way to go on a VS 2000 ;-)
Hans