I for one, would LOVE to run a VMS look alike on my
i386 machine (or at least one of my spare machines...)
It would bring back younger days when I was an op on several
vaxen. (also some dg and some apollo)
please please please!!! : ^ )
Matthew Sell wrote:
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> I know I'm going to open up a can of worms on this post, but my
> curiosity is killing me....
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> Now that I have OpenVMS 6.1 running on my VAX 4000, I'm curious about
> the status of the various "FreeVMS" projects that are in progress (or so
> it would seem....).
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> Are any of these projects really in active development? Which projects
> have the greatest potential for operation? I checked several sites
> related to "FreeVMS", which actually seems to be a common name for
> several different projects with different goals.
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> I'd love to "cut my teeth" with kernel development after working with
> Linux for several years. I personally think it would be neat to have an
> accurate version of FreeVMS that would work on VAX, AXP, and i386
> (gulp!). When I say accurate, I mean that FreeVMS would respond the same
> as VMS would for the various commands and peripherals.
>
> Some of you probably think it would be silly to take an i386 version of
> FreeVMS and port it "back" to VAX and AXP, but it would be a neat way to
> use FreeVMS, especially if the OpenVMS hobbyist program (or OpenVMS)
> were to go away.
>
> Nuts? Probably. Neat? Yes!
>
> Here are links to the various FreeVMS projects I have visited:
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> http://www.panix.com/~kingdon/free-vms.html
> http://www.freevms.org/
> http://www.djesys.com/vms/freevms/
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> - Matt
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