[Info-vax] MicroVAX/VMS newbie, couple of questions

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In article <4ab91a81$0$6257$9b536df3 at news.fv.fi>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kari_Uusim=E4ki?= <uusimaki at exdecWITHOUTTHISfinland.org> writes:
>Tone007 wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I picked up a MicroVAX 3400 system running VMS 5.4 a few weeks ago and
>> spent some time figuring out the basics (quite a bit of a learning
>> curve) and getting it running and online with a copy of CMUIP I found
>> floating around.  I've gotten it telnettable and FTPable (thanks to
>> CMUIP including those,) but I'm wondering if there's a simple HTTP
>> server around that'd run on 5.4.  I saw one that works with DECthreads
>> (on VMS 5.5+ I guess?) but I haven't tried it since I don't see that
>> it's supposed to be compatible.  Obviously a newer version of VMS
>> might make things easier for me, unfortunately it's a DSSI system and
>> the only media it'll take is a tape, and I'm not even sure the tape
>> drive is working (no tapes to test with.)
>> 
>> I also stumbled across a couple of sites mentioning HECnet, that
>> sounds like fun.  Anyone here play with that at all?
>> 
>> Thanks for any pointers you may be able to provide.
>
>
>To use more modern software, you'll be better off if you upgrade VMS to 
>the latest version (V7.3). It is not very difficult to do the upgrade. 
>You need to go through a few steps to reach version 7.3. See the upgrade 
>  path at: http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/73final/6637/6637pro.html#intro_ch
>
>The upgrade procedure is described in the Installationa and upgrade manual:
>http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/73final/6630/6630PRO.html
>
>Do you have more than one disk on your MicroVAX 3400? That might help 
>you with the upgrade.

Why upgrade? If he just came across this MicroVAX, it might be a good
learning experience to install a clean V7.3 and then learn everything
needed to configure it.

One, lose the CMUIP.  Use the TCPIP Services or one of the hobbyist
stacks from Process Software.

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