> --- Eric Dittman <dittman_at_dittman.net> wrote:
>
> > > > Thoughts? What was the best V4.x release? V3? Does anyone have VMS 1.x
> > > > And if so what processors does it support?
> > >
> > > Unless I'm mistaken V1 probably only supports the VAX-11/780...
>
> I think that's true. The 11/750 didn't come out for a couple of years,
> and that's the only other model that I would expect could do it (since
> its microcode is in ROM). Dunno what devices are supported by V1.0.
>
> > > ... and through
> > > V3 I'd guess only the VAX-11/7xx family is supported (in fact I believe
> > > this is probably true for early V4 releases).
>
> We got a MicroVAX-I when they were new ($10K!). It came with MicroVMS on
> an RD-52 (10Mb disk). AFAIK, that was the first VAX not in the 11/7xx line.
>
> > > Oh, and as for anyone having V1, the question is, not only does anyone have
> > > it, does anyone have the doc's. There was a survey about a year ago, and
> > > about the oldest anyone had was V2 or V3 of the Doc sets.
>
> I don't recall the question, but I have the VMS 1.0 docs in a storage locker.
> There is a possibility that I know someone with the media kit, but it's been
> years since I talked to them.
>
> OTOH, I have no docs for any v2 or v3 versions of VMS, but I do have some
> distribution TU-58s for stuff in the range of 3.4 to 3.6.
Whoops, none of the quoted material was written by me.
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Eric Dittman
dittman_at_dittman.net
Received on Sun Jul 01 2001 - 12:13:04 BST