[geeks] Digital VAXstation 3100
Charles Shannon Hendrix
shannon at widomaker.com
Tue Aug 31 23:38:36 CDT 2004
Tue, 31 Aug 2004 @ 18:49 -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke said:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>
> >Anyway, is it worth rescuing? I've only used the larger VAXen before.
>
> It's slow (about half the speed of a VAXstation 4000/VLC), but, yes,
> worth rescuing, as it's a good VMS learning box. It's also as useful
> now as it was when it was bought. So long as you don't need to run gobs
> and gobs of Java stuff or other bloated junk, it'll run well-engineered
> code nicely.
>
> How is it configured?
No idea.
Right now its configuration is "sitting on the junkpile".
Stupid unions...
Hopefully I can rescue it.
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