The VAX 11/780 is a 32-bit machine. Nuff' said.
- Matt
> > way so that some of the programs I tend to write would work. I guess you're
> > going to try to make a FreeVMS for VAX clone, emulating 64 bits on a 32 bit
> > machine would be a project killer from the start.
>
>Weren't there vaxen that didnt support the 64bit instructions? From
>reading (excessively) the VAX Architecure Handbook, I seem to also
>remember it saying that the address space was only 32bits. I could easily
>be wrong, and it woudn't suprise me too much. Anyways, FreeVMS on a Sun
>Enterprise 10k (or S/390 -- zSeries) would be cool, if not horribly wrong.
>:P
>
>Personally (as I stated in my original post) I don't know much about VMS,
>yet, I was just trying to throw some ideas off the top of my head.
>
>-- Pat
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