CHARON™-VAX/Demonstration for Windows

This kit contains a pre-configured subset of CHARON-VAX for Windows. It is configured to emulate a MicroVAX 3900 with the following features:

  • A console terminal;
  • One MSCP disk controller supporting a system disk, a user disk, CD-ROM, diskette A, and an Ethernet adapter;
  • Does not provide tape or serial line support;
  • The test license is valid until January 15th, 2010; runtime limited to 3 hours;
  • Includes a bootable VAX/ELN system disk image (account: CHARON-VAX, no password) with tools to test performance;
  • The demo package includes a VAX/ELN image to demonstrate that the product is a fully functional replacement of the VAX hardware. Note that this license-free VAX/ELN image is not the same as a full VMS system; it is essentially a runtime subset of VMS customized for this demo purpose. Of course, one can install on CHARON-VAX/Demo a full VMS system that can be obtained from a VMS distribution kit or from the VMS hobbyist site of HP.

Host requirements

A PC or laptop running Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition or Windows XP Professional with Microsoft .NET 3.0 (it is included in the demo package, and will be installed automatically if not present on the system), with one CPU of at least 1.5 GHz, 512MB memory and 500 MB of free disk space. To assure reliable Ethernet and disk IO under heavy load a dual CPU system is required.

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For the installation please unpack the archive in a temporary folder and run InstalShell.exe.

Note that CHARON-VAX products contain other faster VAX CPUs, support for more memory, tapes, serial lines, Ethernet, and others. Click here for an overview of VAX Virtualization OverviewCHARON-VAX products.