[Info-vax] OpenVMS.Org quick pool

[Paul Sture]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:34:01 -0400, David Froble wrote:

> It's not just the CPUs and performance.  It's about device support and
> such.  As an example, my VAXs and some of the Alphas use 50 pin SCSI
> disks.  The last one of those I saw was in the clutches of a Dodo bird.

Hehe, there's a parallel somewhere here, given that fodos are extinct 
because they were shot for no reason except folks enjoyed shooting them.
 
> So an important issue is hardware support for available hardware.  For
> VAX, that would include PCI support in the OS, and HW implementing PCI,
> and S-ATA, and ...
>   Today.  Tomorrow, who knows.
> 
> That is one feature of the emulators, as long as they can run on current
> hardware, you're not faced with possible extinction every moment.

Yep.  I'm running both VAX and Alpha VMS here on a combination of SATA 
and USB disks, a USB keyboard, with a digital video connection (i.e. not 
a traditional VGA cable).

-- 
Paul Sture