[SunRescue] Am I the only guy here who like VMS?

[Bill Bradford]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 09:00:29PM -0800, Chris Byrne wrote:
> All,
> Lots of us here have (or have had) vaxen, including myself, and it seems
> that most of you are running net-BSD on them. Am I the only guy here who
> actually thinks VMS was pretty cool? Ok it's networking was irritating, but
> in terns of file services, print services, directory services etc... I think
> it did a pretty good job.

VMS is great.  I just wish I hadnt forgotten most of what I knew. 8-(

My first exposure to the Internet was through VMS 5.5-2, using a PC
running a VT102 emulator over LAT to a VAX 4700A.  That was also the
first web server I ever setup, and its still up -
http://mercur.usao.edu (altho now it just redirects to the web server
they've got up on a Sun).  It was the first web server ever running
at USAO.edu, back in '95. 8-)

> Am I just crazy here, or is it that no-one still has VMS OS tapes?

You can get VMS for free (well, $30 media charge).  Latest version,
all layered products, etc.  For both VAX and alpha.

http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX