FreeVMS

From: Boatman on the River of Suck <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Fri Jan 4 22:31:06 2002

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Pat Finnegan wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Ron Hudson wrote:
>
> > Yup, I could "help" them, probably set the effort back
> > at least a year... :^)
> >
> > > 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?)
> >
> > $$ and X*Y*Z (money and space) :^)
>
> Also: speed. Sorry, but the new Dual ath 1.4G I hope to get with Xmas
> money would be tons faster than and old VAX 8650. Not as fun to play with
> the little computer, but much easier to carry without a pallet mover.

Get a bunch of VAXstation 4000/VLC's, and you will have a nice little
low-power fast VAXcluster.

>
> I have not-too-much experince with VMS, so bear with me, but wouldn't it
> be possible to do one of the following options:
>
> 1) Stick an 'emulation' user-mode shell on top of some free *nix
> 2) Take a stock free *nix kernel, and modify it to work more like VMS.

But then you still wouldn't have compatibility with VMS. Get a VAXstation
4000/VLC and start playing with it, and you will see how fun it is. Plus
it will use *significantly* less space, power, and cooling than that
junky PC.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Fri Jan 04 2002 - 22:31:06 GMT