>One thing I'm a bit surprised by is the speed of the video being much
>faster than I'd imagined it would be. Now to get some software to run
>on it; I've found some stuff already, but can someone point me at some
>share/freeware software to run under DecWindows (besides the DECUS
>archives)? In particular, I remember using an ephemeris program in school
>that I could swear was freely distributed.
A lot of precompiled binaries are available by anonymous ftp
from ftp.cenaath.cena.dgac.fr - but many (most?) of these
are available more conveniently from one of the DECUS collections.
Just about anything that runs under X-windows on a Unix platform
will run under DECWindows on VMS. Generally the difficulties
in porting are comparable to porting between two different Unix
platforms. (That's what that endless maze of "#ifdef"'s is
in there for in the first place!)
>Does the DECUS hobbyist license cover all versions of VMS/DECWindows?
That's a good question, and I thought the license terms itself
would say. But the copy I have from
http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/license_terms.html
is silent on the subject! Comments on comp.os.vms tend to indicate
that 6.1 is covered, but that 6.2 isn't (because 6.2 is still
"currently supported" commercially.)
>I'm running 5.2 on this machine; would upgrading to 6.1 noticeably degrade
>performance? Would additional features balance out any slowdowns? Besides
>new features, my entire manual set is for 6.1...
I forget how much RAM you have, but if you have more than 16 Mbytes you won't
have any problems. If you have 16 Mbytes or less, you might be a bit tight
on memory and would incur some paging/swapping, depending on what you're doing.
Tim. (shoppa_at_trailing-edge.com)
Received on Thu Nov 26 1998 - 12:06:23 GMT