[Info-vax] VAX/VMS V1, V1.5 or anything older than V5

[Kulin]

MG <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 30-5-2012 18:38, Fritz Wuehler wrote:
> >> On 30-5-2012 5:50, Fritz Wuehler wrote:
> >>> If you like old stuff that was good way back when, why not run
> >>> OS/360 on Hercules? It took everybody else another twenty years
> >>> to catch up on their compilers (to be as good as they were 20
> >>> years ago) and nobody ever caught up to the OS.
> >
> > I said (and you quoted) "If you like old stuff that was good"
> 
> Actually, "good back when" ("then"?), is what you wrote.

Actually, and you keep misquoting it, I quoted myself properly, albeit not
fully, as the original line was, and still is, in the thread.

> > So I don't know about anyone else but I did not suggest you liked
> > old for the sake of old.
> 
> Since you're somewhat dragging this out: "If you like old stuff,"
> suggests something different?  Then it must've gone past me.

I'm not dragging anything out. I attempted to clarify but that seems
impossible with you.

> 
> 
> > Hmmm. I don't know why that should be. What platform(s) do you
> > want to run Hercules on?
> 
> I don't remember exactly what I tried, it has been a few months
> ago.  It could've been OS/390, I don't remember anymore.

Ah! I see the problem. You can't read.

As above, the question was "What platform(s) do you want to run Hercules
on?" but you seem to be answering a question I didn't ask, since you wrote
"it could've been OS/390", you're answering the question what OS do you want
to run on Hercules, but I didn't ask that, and no, I'm positive you can't
run Hercules on OS/390. You may have tried to run OS/390 on Hercules. But
you really don't remember. With your games and incomprehensible
"explanations" this could take awhile. But it's not going to, because after
I send this you're going to magically appear in my killfile.

So many idiots, so little time...

Was the problem that:

1) You can't get a working copy of Hercules on Windows?
2) You can't get a working copy of Hercules on Linux?
3) You can't get a working copy of Hercules on some other OS it doesn't run
   on? 
4) You got Hercules installed but couldn't configure it?
5) You got Hercules installed and couldn't install an OS on it?
6) You got Hercules installed and an OS installed on it but couldn't get the
   OS configured?
7) You're a complete idiot and can't follow directions?

See? That's the kind of information you could have given. So I'm betting on
number 7 but maybe you'll surprise us. 


> > I don't know much about System i so I can't dispute that but I
> > think you're wrong. Depends on what you mean by general purpose.
>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > True, System Z doesn't make a very good desktop.
>          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> There's a slight conflict in the above.  (Does it have a true
> 'desktop' at all?)

I was trying to help you since you expressed an interest in running
Hercules. Hint: you can't run Hercules on OS/390. But you seem to be
interested in playing word games. Your comment was System Z isn't a good
general purpose OS. That is incorrect. You seem to be distracted
easily. Maybe that's why you can't get anything built, installed, running,
etc. Bye!