[Info-vax] What are the earliest DEC operating systems you worked with ?

[Marc Van Dyck]

After serious thinking Bill Gunshannon wrote :
> On 3/4/21 12:20 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
>> On 04/03/2021 16:50, Marc Van Dyck wrote:
>>> Simon Clubley laid this down on his screen :
>>>> What are the earliest DEC operating systems you worked with ?
>>>>
>>>> For me, I started with a PDP-11 running RSTS/E V9.{something early},
>>>> then onto VAX/VMS V5.{something} and then onto Alpha VMS V6.{something}.
>>>>
>>>> I have not touched any Itanium systems.
>>>>
>>>> Simon.
>>>
>>> University, 1980. VAX/VMS V2.0 on a VAX 780.
>>> 2,5 GB of memory, 3 disks of 72 MB each, a tape drive, and 40 serial
>>> lines hooked to VT100 or LA120 (for APL, we were FT site) terminals.
>>> Ah yes, and two LPxxx printers and a card reader.
>>> Never left VMS after that, till now...
>>>
>> That was a vast amount of memory then!
>> 
>> We ran a full production setup with 80 odd users in 1990 with 32Mb
>> 
>
> I would really  like to see the VAX 11/780 with 2.8 GB of memory.
>
Was MB, not GB, sorry.

> "The VAX-11/780 originally supported up to 8MB of memory through
> one or two MS780-C memory controllers, with each controller
> supporting between 128kB-4MB of memory. The later MS780-E memory
> controller supported 4MB-64MB of memory, allowing the VAX-11/780
> to support up to a total of 128MB of memory.[4] The KA780 has a
> 29-bit physical address space, allowing it to address a theoretical
> maximum of 512MB of memory."

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Marc Van Dyck