VSI has reportedly ended their hobbyist community licensing program for OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS I64, and is restricting the OpenVMS x86-64 licensing to pre-built and pre-licensed downloads.
Which ends the general usefulness of older hardware platforms for OpenVMS hobbyists, and constrains what can happen on OpenVMS x86-64.
VSI have previously discontinued perpetual licenses for all platforms, and new versions for Alpha and for Itanium.
Outside of some guest images intended for training classes, it's all commercially-licensed SaaS on x86-64 from here on out.
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