[Info-vax] compile for VAX 8650 system

[Scott Dorsey]

 <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> post.
>
>Stop thinking about emulators and start factfinding, understanding
>what hardware and software fits where in this picture. Emulators for
>the VMS host are tried tested and proven, but something in this=20
>picture as currently described sounds almost infinitely improbable.
>
>The VAXELN 4.6 SPD (May 1996) lists the VAX 8650 as NOT SUPPORTED
>as a VAXELN target, along with lots of other mid and high end=20
>systems. And that may also mean "doesn't work".

What's the chance that the 8650 was the original development system?  
The customer is likely running the client program on something else.
The development machine may or may not still exist, though chances are
poor of anyone having managing to keep an 8650 running today.

If it still exists the 8650 should not be hard to locate on a site visit.  
Look for something about three refrigerators in size with a couple field 
engineers shaking their heads at it.

If the source for the client program exists, it can probably be compiled and
sysgenned on any vax.  But for that, you need to know what the client machine
is, and have the client source and the VaxELN development kit.  And someone
who actually knows VaxELN.
--scott

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