At 22:23 27-05-1999 -0400, you wrote:
> I know incredibly little about VMS, and have never encountered it
>before yesterday, but what I have been able to figure out is that it's
>running VAX/VMS 5.4, it has 16Mb of RAM, (2) 212Mb hard drives, and an
>RX23 disk drive. Does anyone have any references or links that would
>be helpful in setting this thing up? Any information would be greatly
>appreciated.
5.4 is pretty old. The current version is 7.x.
The VS3100's will also run Ultrix (DEC's awful Unix port) and NetBSD (A
much better choice, IMO).
Info on the hardware can be found at:
http://anacin.nsc.vcu.edu/~jim/mvax/mvax_faq.html
Info on NetBSD can be had from www.netbsd.org
Best of luck. Those are nice little machines.
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Received on Thu May 27 1999 - 21:46:50 BST