[Info-vax] Availability Manager, was: Re: Production VMS cluster hanging with lots of LEFO

[P. Sture]

In article <000475b2$0$2171$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
 JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:

> A challenge to the VMS engineers: Get VMS to boot not on an 8086.... Get
> VMS to boot on : http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/
> 

<Cough>

VMS on an iPod shuffle:

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mac:/volumes/IPOD/simh simh$ ls -l
total 343408
-rwxrwxrwx   1 simh  simh    1343148 Mar 16 08:01 vax780
-rwxrwxrwx   1 simh  simh      44544 Mar 18  2007 vmb.exe
-rwxrwxrwx   1 simh  simh  174416896 Mar 16 08:17 vms030.rp6
-rwxrwxrwx   1 simh  simh       1553 Mar 16 08:11 vms30.ini

mac:/volumes/IPOD/simh simh$ ./vax780 vms30.ini


VAX780 simulator V3.6-1
Loading boot code from vmb.exe


  VAX/VMS Version V3.0 26-APR-1982 16:21


%OPCOM, 16-MAR-2009 08:12:01.54, logfile initialized by operator OPA0
        logfile is SYS$MANAGER:OPERATOR.LOG
  Login quotas - Interactive limit=64, Current interactive value=0
  SYSTEM       job terminated at 16-MAR-2009 08:12:07.88

Username: SYSTEM
Password: 
        Welcome to VAX/VMS version V3.0
$ sh time
  16-MAR-2009 08:12:20
$ sh dev d
  List of Devices               on      16-MAR-2009 08:12:27.90
  Device   Device      Device       Err.    Volume         Free  Trans 
Mount
  Name     Status  Characteristics Count     Label        Blocks Count 
Count
  DBA2:    on line mnt                 0  VAXVMSRL3       256835    30     
1
  DBA0:    on line                     0 
  DBA1:    on line                     0 
  DYA0:    on line                     0 
  DYA1:    on line                     0 
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OK, I'm cheating there, as what I'm doing is using the iPod to host the 
files but running SIMH on my iBook. 'tis VMS in a pocket though :-)

-- 
Paul Sture