[Info-vax] New VSI Community license PAK

[Hans Bachner]

Chris Townley schrieb am 20.10.2020 um 14:25:
> On 20/10/2020 13:08, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 
>>
>> As far as the number of units go, yes, but presumably the VSI license
>> makes sense only with VSI VMS and the latter requires a reasonably new
>> CPU, right?  At least EV6/21264?
>>
> 
> I believe EV5 is OK - I am intending to move my PWS433AU there.
> 
> FreeAXP, in which I am running  V8.4-2L1 show as:
> 
>       CPU     -  State..........: RC, PA, PP, CV, PV, PMV, PL
>                  Type...........: EV4 (21064), Pass 2 or 2.1
>                  Speed..........: 1216 Mhz
> 
> which seems to work well
> 
> Chris

Yes, but... it seems that FreeAXP is cheating a bit, as a FreeAXP 
emulated AlphaServer 400 also runs V8.4-2L2:

> STUDNT> sho sys /full /noproc
> OpenVMS V8.4-2L2  on node STUDNT   20-OCT-2020 16:02:18.05   Uptime  0 00:38:23
>         AlphaServer 400 4/166

So this EV4/166 CPU is clearly executing EV6 instructions...

Leaving alone what VSI mentions as supported (presumably: tested) 
hardware, I'd assume that V8.4-1L1 runs on any Alpha which was supported 
by HPE OpenVMS V8.4. I don't think that VSI removed any existing 
hardware support for older systems.

The hardware requirements of V8.4-2L2 are there because of the compiler 
switches used to build the system - which trigger usage of instructions 
only available in EV6 and above.

Hans.