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

[John Wallace]

On May 28, 3:06 pm, "Mike K." <madcrow.maxw... at gmail.com> 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


Well done that man.

Wrt diskspace: I assume you're already aware of, and have dismissed,
VMSTAILOR and its DECwindows companion DECW$TAILOR? See e.g.
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/73final/6630/6630pro_014.html or use
your favourite search engine.

Anyway, given that there are now (nearly) freely downloadable builds
of SIMH for Android (the ready made ones I've seen come "free" with a
cheap paid-for Telnet), one can now run various DEC things ranging
from PDP11 (e.g. there is a pre-built RT11 V5.3 image) to VMS, maybe
now with graphics, on the phone in your pocket (as you could on your
iPAQ PDA a few years back). If one so desires.

I'm unlikely to have a chance to try it for a while but if anyone else
does and fancies posting some performance indicators it might be
interesting to readers here.