[Info-vax] SimH with framebuffer and hobbyist kit?

[Paul Sture]

In article 
<464024b2-de93-4dd8-ba85-a46d58938bfb at 5g2000yqz.googlegroups.com>,
 Hans Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> wrote:

> My first computer at home in 1988 was a VAXstation 2000 with 6 MB
> memory.
> It came with VMS 4.7 and VWS. That was a useful, productive
> configuration.
> Of course I wanted an upgrade to VMS V5.1, and used a VT320 ever
> after.

I got a second hand one in 1989 which came with V5.2.  With 6MB RAM 
DECwindows didn't leave enough memory to do other useful work so I used 
VWS and that was fine.

IIRC given the other software[1] I ran on that system, with the single 
RD54 it had upgrading to V5.4 would have been a very tight fit, and V5.5 
was out of the question.

[1] as it was using VMS$TAILOR to take DECwindows off still left loads 
of stuff like fonts on disk, so I archived those off to tape and zapped 
them.

-- 
Paul Sture