[Info-vax] VAX/VMS V1, V1.5 or anything older than V5

[Fritz Wuehler]

MG <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> wrote:

> Is VAX/VMS V1 still available, does someone have it backed up?
> Secondly, will it work under SimH?
> 
> I'd love to try a really old version of VMS, for the sake of
> comparison.  I've recently been reading the V1.5 documents,
> which I found in the excellent bitsavers.org archive.  I'm
> very impressed with how complete and fully-featured VMS
> already was back then, at such an early stage.

If you like old stuff that was good way back when, why not run OS/360 on
Hercules? It took everybody else another twenty years to catch up on their
compilers (to be as good as they were 20 years ago) and nobody ever caught
up to the OS.