[Info-vax] OpenVMS Hobbyist licence - howto

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Michael Kraemer wrote:
> Richard B. Gilbert schrieb:
> 
>>>
>> If it's a *MicroVAX* it does not have a graphical console!
>>
>> Graphics would make it a *VAXStation* 3100.  Yes, there was such a 
>> thing in the late 1980s or early 1990s.  My employers at the time had 
>> one.
>> If any survive, they are either antiques or paper-weights depending on 
>> your POV.
> 
> No idea why you're so disrespectful towards those venerable machines.
> In the late 1980s they contributed largely to VMS' popularity.
> VS3100 on the desktops were a visible sign of "VMS spoken here",
> and true VMS shops usually had quite a bunch of them.
> Compare that to the faceless stuff HP provides these days,
> or those pitiful emulation-on-Windoze legacy solutions.
> 

How about because they are at least three lifetimes old in computer 
years!  If you're collecting antiques it's a real prize.  If you want to 
compute something, any Alpha or any modern PC will blow the doors off it!

Back in the 1980s I had other things on my mind. These days I'm 
concerned about getting results before I die of old age!

A couple of device drivers were about all the VAX Macro I ever wrote; I 
don't miss Macro-32 or the VAX.