[Info-vax] VMS VAX License for personal Microvax 3100 Model 40

[Don North]

On 2022-07-31 16:25, David Goodwin wrote:
> On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 10:02:58 AM UTC+12, Andy Burns wrote:
>> Lee Gleason wrote:
>>
>>> VSI should be doing all it can to get VMS, any version/architecture of VMS, in
>>> front of as many people with as little effort to the end user as possible now.
>> And using x86-64 hardware with familiar hypervisors isn't that?
> 
> Different audience.
> 
> VMS on x86-64 is interesting to people who are already know about and are interested
> in OpenVMS.
> 
> VMS on VAX is interesting to people who like vintage computers and at that particular
> point in time may have no other interest in or knowledge of VMS beyond "its what the
> VAX was built to run". OpenVMS VAX would be the foot in the door - you've tried the
> classic VAX version, why not give the latest and greatest x86-64 version a go with
> all these new features?

I have old VAX hardware (VAXstation 4000 vlc) that I wanted to keep running 
legacy OpenVMS 7.4 on. I can't legally do that any more.

I don't care about VMS on X86. Not interesting. If I want to run VMS on my PC I 
would do it using SIMH VAX. It is more than fast enough. And it is real VAX VMS.

IMHO VSI and HPE have finally found the solution to kill VMS, esp VAX/VMS, entirely.

So sad. On exit HPE could have distributed in perpetuity VMS licenses, but they 
did not. They gave us a year. That year is done.

RIP VAX/VMS