[Info-vax] FreeAXP/Avanti 2.2.0.435 Released

[Paul Sture]

In article <CyyzpP2ZUZCo at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
 koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:

> In article <k5n185$hcs$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> 
> writes:
> > 
> > As all too often in written communications, sarcasm is not detected.
> > 
> > Why would anyone want to run a VMS emulator on a VMS system?  Perhaps 
> > for VAX code without sources for re-building on Alpha or IA-64.  But 
> > otherwise ????
> 
>    Why do people climb mountains?
> 
>    I ported a version of SIMH VAX years ago to VMS on my Alpha and to 
>    OS X on my Mac.  Booted VMS on both.  Just because.  Didn't keep 
>    either.

I got SIMH working on OS X several years ago, and got the networking 
going.  The problem with it at that time was the lack of the idle loop 
fix, and on a single CPU it had the fans running full time.
 
>    Mostly it told me how portable SIMH was at that time.  I was suprised
>    a couple years later when folks had trouble porting a later version
>    of SIMH to a later version of OS X.  I understand that has long since
>    been fixed.

Some network problem IIRC.

I also grabbed the sources for PostgreSQL way back when and successfully 
compiled and tested it long before OS X was considered a supported 
platform.

At the time everyone was recommending MySQL, and I tried that, but I got 
sick of MySQL's tutorials telling me in every single lesson how great it 
was.  I smelt a rat, and lo and behold, the product managed to corrupt a 
simple database containing grocery bills.  I will point out that this 
was before MySQL got transactional ability...

-- 
Paul Sture