Vax!

From: Bill Pechter <pechter_at_pechter.dyndns.org>
Date: Thu May 27 11:34:56 1999

> > I'm hoping to get the vs3100 up here. I wish DEC had put BasicPlus
> > or whatever the Basic from VMS was for hobbiest use so we could really
> > show that Basic code can be done quite nicely on the Vax (and PDP's).
> >
> > C and Pascal are ok -- but the Visual Basic folks need to see a real
> > nice basic in action.
>
> You do have VAX Basic on the VAX Hobbyist CD. However, the space that
> should have gone to it on the Alpha CD is taken up with Java and Netscape
> (which you can download, grrrr.) I was really hoping to get the latest and
> greatest version of Alpha BASIC. Still, except for that, the CD's have the
> main stuff I'm interested in.
>
> Zane

Well, I'm set then. Now to install and try to build DECnet for Linux.

(Maybe find a PDT11/150 and run Async DECnet/RT again...)

Bill
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