Handheld VAX and System/370.

[Andrew Back]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Antonio Carlini wrote:

> Andrew Back wrote:
>>  Speaking of which does anyone know if VMS can live without
>> page
>> and swap files? Somehow it doesn't seem likely...
>
> The OpenVMS VAX CDs from V7.1 onwards (or thereabouts)
> were bootable (from [SYS1] IIRC). I don't recall there being
> a requirement for any local storage.
>
> All unsupported, if I remember correctly.

Thanks, I'll give it a go. I guess if that works the next step would be to 
take the 'write quiet' VMS configuration and copy it into a r/w accessed 
SimH disk file, in order to be able to customise.

Andrew