Jay,
you didn't see a lot of messages from me recently because I am pretty
busy with my job, which is OpenVMS support, mostly for European sites of
the company I am working for.
I don't think you can download everything that is on "official" VMS
media. Even if you could, you would need some bandwidth and/or time: the
VMS kit V7.2-1 (granted, my copy is for Alpha, not for VAX processors)
is one CD for the O/S, another for the firmware (which would not be
required for a VAX), one for documentation, and two for layered products.
There is a separate kit, called the "Software Products Library" and
"Online Documentation Library", which consists of 18 (eighteen!) CDs. If
that's what you were offered, you'll certainly prefer pickup over download.
As the "documentation" in the kit or CD descriptions implies, you may
not need manuals after you have the CDs.
And, definitely no, VMS does not run on PDPs. You can currently buy it
for VAX or Alpha architectures (the latter now also being on-topic), and
a port to Itanium is on its way (first booted in last January). VMS
does, however, have a design that is based on and closely related to
RSX-11M, an operating system for PDP-11s.
Hope that helps!
Regards,
Andreas
Jay West wrote:
> Ok, I know NOTHING about openVMS. However, this just came up...
>
> A friend of a friend offered me what he says is a complete set of OpenVMS
> media. No manuals, just the media.
>
> Several questions:
>
>>From what I understand, isn't there some type of hobbyist free license for
> openvms? If so, not sure why I should grab the media from him if I can just
> download it. Or is there a value to getting the media from him, as to it
> giving me the ability to purchase a license transfer or something... in
> short, is there a special reason getting "real" media is desirable?
>
> Lastly... he said it runs on vax's and pdp's. Not sure if he knows what he's
> talking about, so I'll ask here. Could this run on my 11/44?
>
> Thanks for any enlightenment!
>
> Jay West
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Andreas Freiherr
Vishay Semiconductor GmbH, Heilbronn, Germany
http://www.vishay.com
Received on Wed May 21 2003 - 16:57:20 BST