Re: RSX.EXE under OpenVMS 7.3?

From: Howard Shubs (howard_at_shubs.net)
Date: 09/29/03 

Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:03:12 -0400

In article <KwRdb.2400$QH3.1908@newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net>,
 Antonio Carlini <arcarlini@iee.org> wrote:

> Howard Shubs wrote:

> > I expect you'll need hardware which can do compatability mode, too.
> > That's any VAX-11 and a few of the more recent ones IIRC.
>
> The last VAX to incorporate compatibility mode was, IIRC, the
> VAX 8600 (and VAX 8650) from the mid 1980s. I'm not sure I'd
> count that as recent!

True. However, they were more recent than any VAX-11, which is all I
said. After all, is ANY VAX recent at this point? IIRC, they ran out
of new VAXen around 1998.

> escapes me) but I don't think it needs compatibility mode.

How can it support instructions which the VAX doesn't actually have?
RSX.EXE, as I understand it, is OS support, not hardware emulation. 

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