[Info-vax] HP adds OpenVMS Mature Product Support beyond the end of Standard Support

Paul Sture nospam at sture.ch
Sun Feb 2 09:23:27 EST 2014


Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> Exactly.  I would like to see it "worked around".  I have a 6809 with
> 16 address lines.  It has 512K of memory and I have seen this machine
> with as much as 2 meg.  I would like to see a PDP-11 with more than
> 2 Meg of memory.
>
> Of course, being as they are still being made, it would be real
> interesting to see a new PDP-11 with more address lines, too. :-)
> There I go dreaming again.  :-)  But, you have to admiit, it could
> be a lot of fun.
>
> Hmmm..   Let's see...  How many overlays would it take to get Open
> Office running on a PDP-11?   :-)

Perhaps that's why the LibreOffice folks enhanced the spreadsheet to
cope with more than 64K rows :-)

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