[Info-vax] vax vms licenses

[gah4]

On Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 1:28:10 AM UTC-7, John Dallman wrote:

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> As an additional logistical point, open-sourcing VMS while building it 
> requires using out-of-production Itanium servers would be suicidal: it 
> has to be sustainable on commodity hardware first. 

DEC nicely released the 36 bit OS for us to use, though with only
(from them) out of production hardware.   I am not so sure when
emulators came out, but it would not have been hard to write one
by then. 

I suspect VAX is nicer to write an emulator for than Alpha or Itanium,
but all are possible to keep VMS running on new hardware.