what was VMS/OpenVMS written in?

[Zane H. Healy]

At 6:20 PM -0800 12/1/10, John Finigan wrote:
>On PersonalAlpha, Zane Healy wrote:
>
>>  I have two major issues with it.  One is it requires
>>  Windows, the other is
>>  that it is restricted to 128MB of RAM.
>
>Stromasys actually has an AlphaStation 400 emulator that runs on Linux,
>and allows at least 512 MB. 
>You have to register on their site, but it's free.
>There's an also ES40 emulator that I think will allow several GB.
>The AS400 runs Tru64 reasonably on my 2.X GHz AMD PC.

I'm currently creating an account.  If I can get 512Mb under Linux, 
I'm in business!  That would allow me to squeeze what I *need* in 
there, and probably get acceptable performance.  I'm a little 
concerned about the time limited nature though.

>PersonalAlpha emulates a 3000/400 but won't boot prehistoric OSF/1
>versions like 2.0, last time I tried.  Not that I can blame them.
>I wonder if 2.0 is still in use anywhere?

Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if someone still is.  We have some 
very old UNIX boxes at work still running, though none that old. 
When you have requirements to run an application that only runs on a 
specific OS version, you have problems. :-(

Zane



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