Brian,
Emulation of hardware wasn't my goal; I was hoping to emulate the operating
system on the VAX.
- Matt
At 08:19 PM 1/3/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Or you could help out Bob Supnik(?) or Tim Stark on their vax
>emulators. SimH already will run NetBSD/VAX but fails with VMS.
>
>Brian
>
>
>On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 19:46, Boatman on the River of Suck wrote:
> >
> > 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!!! : ^ )
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Matthew Sell wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 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
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Matthew Sell
> > > > Programmer
> > > > On Time Support, Inc.
> > > > www.ontimesupport.com
> > > > (281) 296-6066
> > > >
> > > > Join the Metrology Software discussion group METLIST!
> > > > http://www.ontimesupport.com/cgi-bin/mojo/mojo.cgi
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad
> > > > "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer" - Adolf Hitler
> > > >
> > > > Many thanks for this tagline to a fellow RGVAC'er...
> > >
> > >
Matthew Sell
Programmer
On Time Support, Inc.
www.ontimesupport.com
(281) 296-6066
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