[Info-vax] VMS 5.0

[ChrisQ]

On 11/14/11 06:33, Roger Ivie wrote:

>
> I ran MicroVMS on a "MicroVAX 8000", a VAXstation 8000 that was missing
> the Evans&  Sutherland graphics hardware. Installed it from RX50s. Don't
> recall what version it was; I think it was 4.5. I don't know what DEC
> shipped with the VAXstation 8000s; we used to do work for DEC and things
> would occasionally just kind of show up.

I ran an 8200 system for a couple of years and searched hi and low for one
of those graphics cards to turn it into a VS8000. Never found one and I 
think
it was only listed in systems and options for about a year, though 
originally
saw it in one of the supermicrosystems handbooks. The performance must 
have been
underwhelming, though most likely faster than the Vaxstation 100, which was
a 730 with E$S graphics card and where much of the very early 
development work
on X windows was done. If you look at the sources, there's quite a bit 
of data
on the VS100 implementation and how they tried to get round the speed 
limitations.

Would still like to find either of those boards, even though I no longer 
have
the hardware to run it on...

Regards,

Chris