>Nope. VMS only runs on VAXen, Alphas, and (in the future perhaps)
>Itaniums, While earlier versions of VMS might fit in the memory space of
Actually there is no "in the future" about it, while it's not publically available, OpenVMS is *RUNNING* on the Itanium 2. In fact one of the HP employee's just posted the news that they've succeeded in clustering an Alpha running 7.3 with an Itanium 2 system! The limited public release, for developers, is still a ways away, but they've made good progress in the last few months since it first booted (plus I believe they're publicly demoing it in Europe at the moment). More information, and a timetable should be on the HP OpenVMS site somewhere.
>You can run a lot of different OS's on the PDP still, from RT-11, to
>RSX-11, to even some versions of BSD. Oh yes, and don't forget you can
I've run RT-11 and XXDP (Diag's) on my /44. Ideally I'd like to get it up and running with RSTS/E (an OS I think Jay would like), but I don't need to worry about that at the moment as don't have access to it (Oh, well, my /73 is configured better)
>run standalone things that don't require an OS, too. That's why they put
>those wonderful toggle switches on the front of the cPU :). Now I just
>wish I had a machine with some...
Um, I'm afraid a /44 doesn't have toggle switches, it has one of the plainest fronts of all of the Unibus systems (like the /84 and /94).
Zane
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