17 May
2013
17 May
'13
10:20 p.m.
Also, the VAX-11/750 do not even use VMB...
The 750 _could_ use VMB; you just had to load it from TU58. The 750 just
didn't need VMB to boot from disk - it just had a "shortcut" (some might
say
a "hack") for that path.
And I believe the hack worked just as well for booting Unix too; that's
why the 750 was very popular with Unix sites.
And of course, nobody ever wanted to boot anything but VMS... ;-)
Well, DEC didn't, and they did build the machine after all.
Didn't seem to stop any of the Unix crowd from using it too.
Bob