[HECnet] Older VAXVMS Install kits?

[Steve Davidson]

If I remember correctly,   DEC was phasing out VAX-11/7xx systems during
the 5.x timeframe in favor of the 8000 class machines.     While 6.x will
probably run, I am not sure you would be happy with its "performance".
I would stay in the pre-6.x versions.

I have run Version 1.0 through 5.5-4 on the 11/780.   So it goes...

-Steve 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE 
[mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Cory Smelosky
Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2012 17:56
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Subject: Re: [HECnet] Older VAXVMS Install kits?


On 23 Dec 2012, at 17:53, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

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.

Please upload them, I am quite interested in older VMS.


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

Maybe i'll go with both!


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

I have a copy of 6.2 in some file format nothing knows. VMS 
doesn't even seem to.


              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA