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

[Chris Byrne]

Damn, that makes me wish I hadn't gotten rid of my alpha. I had a very nice
little alphastation with the 3Dlabs graphics setup that I got from a
previous employer who didnt know what to do with it.

600 or so mhz CPU, 512 megs of RAM, 2x18 U2-F/W, and the multi-boot prom.

I was just running Linux on it and ended up giving it to a friend (I figure
I got it for free, he might as well) who wanted to try a BSD port.

Hmmmm.... Ebay... Ebay might be the solution here, though it is rare I see a
good Alpha for sale there


Chris Byrne

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Bill Bradford
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 21:57
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Am I the only guy here who like VMS?


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
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