Somebody rang a big Ol' bell for me the other day.
They alluded that VAXen ship with hardware ID's,
something that I had forgotten years ago
(I actually wrote ID encoders for some G.E.
software back in 1985)
This led to some panic. If the only source of
software is new or near new copies, then some VAX
architectures with limited disk or memory would
not be able to run it -- and without being able
to re-HWID old SW copies, they could not be made
to run on other configs, even exact matches.
Anybody know if:
All VAXes have HWIDs? Even micros?
Is it possible for some Third trusted party
to permit back revision VMS copies to run
on different copies of HW with other CPUID's?
I checked
http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/faq.html
but couldn't find much of anything there.
Thanks in Advance
John A.
Received on Mon Sep 11 2000 - 16:40:19 BST