[Info-vax] Reading Gordon Bell's VAX strategy document

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Sun Sep 24 18:48:52 EDT 2023


On 9/24/2023 10:29 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2023-09-24 16:10, John Dallman wrote:
>> The idea of running VMS on a terminal with a total of 64KB of RAM and ROM
>> in 1982 seems implausible now, but it seems to have been the reason for
>> 512-byte pages.

> VMS was never expected to run on something with 64K. You couldn't even 
> run a reasonable PDP-11 on that little memory at that point. (I said 
> responable, for anyone dragging out a minimal RT-11 system.)

What was the smallest VAX memory wise?

I think I have heard about 256 KB VAX 780's. Can anyone confirm?

Arne





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