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From: fenster@shum.huji.ac.il (Yaacov Fenster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: MicroVax hardware compatibility
Message-ID: <272@shum.huji.ac.il>
Date: 28 Aug 90 12:56:18 GMT
References: <12927@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Reply-To: shum!fenster@jade.berkeley.edu (Yaacov Fenster)
Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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In article <12927@hydra.gatech.EDU> bb16@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Bostater) write
s:
>I have some software written for VMS version 4.6 that makes use of a PDP-11
>backward compatibility mode.  I want to run the software on a microvax.  Is
>this backward compatibility mode going to shoot me in the foot?
>--
>Scott Bostater      Georgia Tech Research Institute - Radar Systems Analysis
>Internet: bb16@prism.gatech.edu

 In addition to getting the RSX-AME product, which BTW runs ok, I remember seein
g
 information about a Hardware/Software product which involves putting a PDP CPU
into the QBUS, and downloading programs to run there.
Try to get Info from your salesman, if it doesn't help contact me, and I will se
e
what I can do about it. I also remember that they were looking for beta sites as
well.

 Yaacov
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fenster@hujinix.bitnet
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