[Info-vax] VMS Software Inc. OpenVMS 8.4-1H1 Boots on i4 System

[David Froble]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <00AF4404.42259F0F at sendspamhere.org>,
> 	VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>> In article <2eb3bc69-e2d7-4fc9-b997-972d053778fe at googlegroups.com>, Bob Gezelter <gezelter at rlgsc.com> writes:
>>> On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 10:43:29 AM UTC-4, VAXman- wrote:
>>>> In article <140b370d-93af-474d-8e6d-15e277ecd700 at googlegroups.com>, Bob Gezelter <gezelter at rlgsc.com> writes:
>>>>> On Friday, March 13, 2014, the Engineering Team at VMS Software booted a built from scratch OpenVMS 8.4-1H1 DVD on an i4 system.
>>>> Were you there?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker    VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG
>>>>
>>>> I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.
>>> Brian,
>>>
>>> I was echoing the information received from Skonetski the Elder on LinkedIn. I noticed it had not been put on comp.os.vms.
>> I was wondering where you'd garnered that info.  IMHO, it should have been
>> posted to comp.os.vms and also to the VMS-SIG list.  
> 
> That's funny.  People are against using modern non-standard (at least in
> the opinions of people here) media but expected them to post it on
> something as obsolete asd USENET a media outlet for dinosaurs.

Yeah, but some of us dinosaurs ain't extinct.

>>                                                     The new-fangled social
>> media mechanisms might be fine for others but I find them way too busy with
>> way too much noise to sift through to find anything of real interest.  
> 
> That's you.  But hen, I doubt for VSI it is all about you.  :-)

Sacraledge !!  (Ok, I can't spell)

>>                                                                       Both
>> comp.os.vms and the VMS-SIG list have a long history of VMS-focused banter,
> 
> And they are ancient history.  If it is expected (and desired) that VMS
> continue into the future, don;t you think it should use the methods that
> are accepted today rather than a system used for preaching to the choir?

Why not both?

>> and either would be the first place I'd expect news about VMS to appear.
> 
> Spoken like a true dinosaur.  I know hiow much people here hate the term
> "legacy", especially when used inthe same sentence as VMS but USENET is
> LEGACY.  Twitter and Facebook and LinkedIN are todays technology.

Legacy - things that work ...

>>                                                                         I
>> realize that there's some expectation that social media can somehow garner
>> new VMS advocates, but dissing or ignoring the base/faithful isn't sage.
> 
> Attitude check.  I, personally, don't place nearly so much value on
> myself.  I doubt VSI cares about me personally and I am not surprised
> or hurt by that.

I place infinite value on myself.  Not that I'm under any illusion that 
others do so, but, I'm all I got ....

:-)

> Oh, and by the way, Yes, I do LinkedIN.  I do not do Twitter at all and
> I don;t "follow" or "Like" anything on Facebook.  But then, I'm a dinosaur,
> too.  Just ask my grandson.  :-)
>  
> bill
>