Why not just get a VAX (or two or three?)
Peace... Sridhar
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Ron Hudson wrote:
> Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 09:51:27 -0800
> From: Ron Hudson <rhudson_at_cnonline.net>
> Reply-To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: FreeVMS
>
> 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!!! : ^ )
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> 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....
> >
> >
> > 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....).
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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:
> >
> > http://www.panix.com/~kingdon/free-vms.html
> > http://www.freevms.org/
> > http://www.djesys.com/vms/freevms/
> >
> >
> > - Matt
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> > Matthew Sell
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