After a long wait I have finally got membership of Encompass and
have requested and received an OpenVMS licence for SimH (I entered
serial no #1, hope that'll work! - leaving the field blank was
rejected)
I thought that once I had the licence, and simh built and installed
on a dedicated machine, that it would be easy to download a .iso
image and get started. No such luck! From what I can tell the
only way to get the VMS code is to buy the $30 CD? Is it permissible
to get a copy of the .iso from someone who has it, since I'm now
licensed, or is an original CD a requirement (legally I mean, not
technically).
If it's OK to download a .iso from someone, could anyone here who has
one online and a suitably high bandwidth connection please point me
at a copy? I'm desperate to get started! :-)
By the way, to the person who asked about where to get online to a
real VMS - the Deathrow Cluster has both an Alpha and a Vax and they're
real nice & helpful guys:
http://deathrow.vistech.net/ About a month
ago I installed Edinburgh's Imp77 compiler on their Vax, which is
the first time that compiler has been run in many years! - it wasn't
possible to 'vest' the binary on the University's Alpha which was the
only VMS I had access to initially...
Graham
Received on Sat Nov 29 2003 - 21:20:10 GMT