On Monday, December 1, 2003, at 09:42 PM, John Allain wrote:
>> I am currently uneremployed and can't make ends meet
>> as it is. I doubt if my wife will spring for the $30 VMS
>> takes.
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> snappy responses:
> Well, our time for your questions is worth about $30 anyway.
> If you want to be productive jobwise,
> seriously go do netBSD/Linux instead of VMS.
Sorry, You will have to stand in line behind my creditors..
I have been in job search for a technical job for over 4 years.
I am a well-skilled Novell system administrator. I have enough
experience with linux/unix to earn a brainbench cert as unix
administrator.
But instead of finding any jobs for my experience i am forced to
work at [shudder] radio shack [/shudder] (and I am too honest to
be a sales type so I'm the stock guy) (which gets $7.00 /hr and
15/20 hr a week.)
The last time I touched VMS it was at version 3.0.
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>> Hmm Layered products, C compiler?
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> Here's what they say they give you at order time:
> http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/mount.html
> OpenVMS VAX Hobbyist Kit V3.0:
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> OpenVMS V7.3
> DECWindows 1.2.6 (Motif)
> DECnet Phase IV
> DECnet OSI Phase V
> TCPIP V5.1
> Kerberos VAX V1.0
> BASIC V3.9
> Compaq C V6.4
> Compaq FORTRAN V6.6
> Pascal V5.8
> DCPS V2.0
> DECSet V12.4
> Datatrieve V7.2
>>>> and... shipping's included
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> eBay disks are usually more money.
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>> If I remember the vax 11/780 I used to op had only about a
>> 400mb hard drive. How much do I need for a vms system?
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> 200mb - 1gb should be enough for a minimal/maximal system.
> <snappy>
> And, time to waste. Got that?
15/20hr a week scleping boxes, the rest is mine but I
am also still looking for that tech job.
> </snappy>
> This hobbyist stuff is sometimes just plain irresponsible.
> Sounds like you don't need to be that.
>
Walk a mile..
> John A.
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Received on Mon Dec 01 2003 - 22:28:39 GMT