[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Hobbyist Program Announced.

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-06-16 kl. 18:47, skrev osuvman50 at gmail.com:
> On Sunday, June 16, 2019 at 12:07:18 PM UTC-4, Dave Froble wrote:
>> This confuses me.  2L2 is for later Alpha processors, EV6 and such.
>> Could be wrong, but I thought the AlphaServer 400 used an EV4 processor.
>>
> 
> f$getsyi("CHARACTER_EMULATED") returns false, implying the virtual machine does
> support the newer string instructions. The FreeAXP web site says you can configure
> the virtual machine as either EV4, EV5 or EV6, but I don't see anything to set
> that in the configuration utility. Also, the configuration utility lets you
> launch the emulator, creating a freeaxp process, but there doesn't appear to be
> a way to stop it (other than task manager) when you are done playing with it.
> 

Enter "exit" at the console >>> prompt. That exists the emulator a few
seconds after that "no such command" has been displayed by the console...

As is described in the Getting Started manual that was included...



> I'd be tempted to purchase the product if the units were about half of what they were charging.
>