[Info-vax] VAXCluster vs. VMSCluster?

[AdeV]

Richard B. Gilbert may or may not have intoned:
> AdeV wrote:
> > Bob Koehler may or may not have intoned:
> >> In article <MPG.25b1f31cca876631989905 at news.enta.net>, AdeV <spam at solutionengineers.com> writes:
> >>> SO: Now I've fixed that error. But, as per my witterings elsewhere, I 
> >>> used the ethernet-booted MicroVAX to install a fresh VMS image on a 
> >>> second hard drive; so that is now a standalone unit, not part of the 
> >>> cluster. And, as such, is cheerfully running with the original VAX-VMS 
> >>> licence. So now I can shut down the simh one, and just use the real 
> >>> hardware. 
> >>    Glad to see you got that far.  Now install some friendly layered
> >>    products and have fun.
> > 
> > Re-acquianting myself with the joys of COBOL, ADA and BASIC right now :)
> > 
> > I'd forgotten just how hard ADA is, compared to - say - Basic...
> > 
> 
> BASIC?   Or *correct* BASIC?

I assume by *correct* you mean "not using GOTO/GOSUB or any similar 
variant"; then yes... *correct* BASIC.

I don't know what version of DEC Basic was current in 1991, but that's 
the version I'd have been using at Stafford. I don't recall it 
supporting "proper" functions & subroutines; but, there's an awful lot 
about my student days that I don't recall. I wrote an entire play-by-
mail football (soccer) simulator in DEC Basic, in early '92. It was 
moderately popular on campus, as I recall; unfortunately, I lost the 
only hardcopy a few years back in a garage flood. Not that I fancied re-
typing it TBH... it was a good inch-thick block of paper. 132 column 
paper as well, not that nancy 80 column rubbish.


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Cheers!
Ade.