Into the modern age

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Thu Nov 26 12:52:01 1998

< 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

Why? DEC would and did do things to keep it from being a turkey. The
Video is not a simple bit map and there is a drawing engine in there.
Also VAX instruction set is fairly efficient doing bit manipulations.

< 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 schoo
< that I could swear was freely distributed.

Check, there was a fairly good flight sim and other stuff as well.

< Does the DECUS hobbyist license cover all versions of VMS/DECWindows?

V5.4 through 6.1. It may work with earlier.

< I'm running 5.2 on this machine; would upgrading to 6.1 noticeably degra
< performance? Would additional features balance out any slowdowns? Beside
< new features, my entire manual set is for 6.1...

Having manuals is a good reason to be at that level. being at 6.1 may
slow it a tiny bit but it's worth it. The other end is for 6.1 I'd call
a 200mb scsi the minimum acceptable where 5.1 you can get by with 121mb.

However a 400mb-1gb small scsi should not be hard to find cheap.

Allison
Received on Thu Nov 26 1998 - 12:52:01 GMT