[HECnet] Older VAXVMS Install kits?

[Cory Smelosky]

On 23 Dec 2012, at 18:33, "Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-" <system at TMESIS.COM> wrote:

Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> writes: 

On 12/23/2012 05:21 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: > As i'm not getting
anywhere with my TOPS-10 endeavours, I thought i'd > try something else:
older VAXVMS in SIMH's VAX-11/780 simulator. ;) > > 1). What would be
the best/most interesting version to try? 2). Where > would I get
install media for these older versions? ;) 

I have a bunch of older VMS distributions.   I don't know if they're
available anywhere else or not; I would assume so but am not sure.   At
least several 3.x and 4.x distributions, going back to 3.0.   Let me know
if they're wanted and I can put them up somewhere. 

I'd say 4.7 for speed and period-correctness, 5.5 for featurefulness. 

The last release of VMS to run on an 11/780 was, I believe, v6.2. 

V7.3 should run on it.

Really? I seem to recall reading several places that 6.2/6.3 were the last to run on an -11/780.


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