[rescue] VAXstation questions

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Wed May 14 02:31:35 CDT 2003


On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 11:50 AM, Jochen Kunz wrote:
>> Will this support the latest OpenVMS ?
> Sorry, I am a UNIX only head. ;-)
> But given the "poor" performance of 0.9 VUPs (== 0.9 MIPS) and only a
> few MB RAM you should use a VMS from the same period as the machine.

   Actually a current VMS should do pretty well on that machine.  
Something pre-5.0, though, like 4.7, will *fly*.  5.0 and beyond were 
much, much slower than 4.x.

   ...and VMS <5.0 has no stinkin' LMF! 8-)

        -Dave

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