[rescue] Re: Alpha rescue

[Robert Novak]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, joshua d boyd wrote:

> Oops, missed that.  Too bad.  I'm told that Compaq's unix is free for
> hobbiests, in addition to VMS.  Try finding the DEC users group web,
> since I believe that is where you get the hobbiest media and licenses
> from.

First of all, it's hobbyist. Hobbiest would be the extreme superlative of
"hobbie" I guess (hobbie, hobbier, hobbiest).

I believe that Tru64 and OpenVMS are treated the same way--free license
when you buy the $100ish media kit. Actually, I found the OpenVMS kits
from montagar for $30 including shipping (see url list below) but Tru64 is
still $99 ($39 for the upgrade from 5.0/5.0A to 5.1). 

But it looks like Jensen was intended for NT only so you *might* have a
challenge ahead of you.

Helpful URLs:
"OpenVMS on Jensen?" http://www.openvms.compaq.com/wizard/wiz_3521.html
"OpenVMS Hobbyist Home Page" http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/
"Noncommercial Tru64" http://www.tru64unix.compaq.com/noncommercial-unix/

Hope this helps.

--Rob
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