On Monday, December 1, 2003, at 10:12 PM, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Ron Hudson wrote:
>
>> Actually my main server machine (beehive) linux redhat 7.somthing
>> has about 11gb on it free.
> My network has about, oh, 6TB or so. But:
>
>> Which is more fun, a linux with a hidden VAX server in my network
>> or A Windows 95/linux laptop running simh VAX
yup lappy it is. The linux on the laptop (sputnik - it's a Toshiba
sattlite) has about 3.6 gb free. So I could run Simh/VAX/VMS in
the background and telnet into localhost to login?
> The lappy! I have made several older techies *drool* during
> flights. I travel business class (nevermind that), so usually
> have enough space to work. One time, on a flight from Amsterdam
> to SFO, I was working on some weirdish Ultrix crashing thing on
> SimH/VAX, and this guy comes up, asking "hey... is that Linux on
> your laptop? I couldnt help but noticing the UNIX command lines,
> soo.."
If you are going to run unix, why simulate a vax and run vax unix
when you can run linux directly? :^) does Ultrix have advantages
over linux?
>
> Heh. He nearly fell over when shown that it was Win2K, running
> SimH/VAX with Ultrix-32 on it. It then took only ten minutes
> to get him moved towards me, and a serial cable laid out to
> his lappy, as a terminal. We had fun the entire flight, and
> still do lots of email :) He knew UNIX, but preferred VMS, so
> now travels with Simh/VAX running OpenVMS 7.1 including all
> gadgets he could think of... I believe he got an extra lappy
> just for that.
>
> *DAMN* why cant we use WLAN inflight :(
>
>> portable vs powerful ...hmm. How does VAX mail hook up to the outside
>> world?
> Just regular SMTP.
>
> Cheers,
> Fred
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