[rescue] Amiga videos online for your enjoyment

[John Floren]

On 5/23/07, Michael Parson <mparson at bl.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 03:32:30PM -0400, John Floren wrote:
> > On 5/23/07, Magnus <magnus at yonderway.com>wrote:
> >> Ethan O'Toole wrote:
> >>> Writing an OS for the PC that isn't Windows or Linux would be more
> >>> useful.
> >>
> >> FreeBSD? NetBSD? OpenBSD? Darwin? OpenSolaris?  Haiku? Plan 9? GNU Hurd?
> >>
> >> I'm sure I'm missing a couple of dozen.
> >
> > Syllable. QNX. BeOS. Somebody else can probably come up with another 10.
> > You know what would be far better than recreating the Amiga on a PC?
> > Porting VMS to PC. Somebody at HP get on that, get them to open up the
> > old VAX sources or something.
>
> http://freevms.free.fr/indexGB.html
>
> =)

FreeVMS seems to be dead. The page hasn't been updated since 2003. I
downloaded their stuff and tried to boot it, but it got a kernel panic
under qemu. Anyway, I'd much prefer to see a *port* of VMS rather than
a VMS work-alike built on the Linux kernel (which FreeVMS certainly
seems to be, what with all the kernel boot messages... I know what a
VMS boot looks like, and it ain't that.)


John
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