[Info-vax] OSes

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-01-13 22:09:16 +0000, Bill Cunningham said:

> "Rich Alderson" <news at alderson.users.panix.com> wrote in message 
> news:mddwprdkulr.fsf at panix5.panix.com...
>> I suspect that you want to stick to your C64.
> 
>     Hum....I can't get that C64 VIC20 or other CBM machine emulator to 
> work for some reason. And all I am aware CBM used as an OS was CP/M.
> 
>     I never really considered as you say the processing power of the 
> machine. I was only comparing software differences. And OS languages.

Log into decuserve, and learn VMS there.   You won't have to install 
and debug and learn an emulator, nor learn how to administer the host 
operating system for the emulator, nor troubleshoot the networking, nor 
learn how to administer OpenVMS.   You'll avoid the proverbial deep end 
of the pool, here.   Once you get the hang of the DCL command line, you 
can then run X windows from there, via SSH, back to your local X Window 
server, if you're inclined to do that and if have a decent network 
connection.

telnet decuserve.org — follow the registration login and related directions.

Start with the User's Manual to learn OpenVMS.
http://h30266.www3.hp.com/odl/vax/opsys/vmsos73/vmsos73/6489/6489pro_contents.html 


Then — as you start to work toward administration:
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/82final/aa-pv5mj-tk/aa-pv5mj-tk.html
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/82final/aa-pv5nj-tk/aa-pv5nj-tk.html

What follows is how to use OS X with remote X Windows — DECwindows — 
and most any other Unix system will be roughly similar.   But you 
really want to start out simpler here with any of the DEC operating 
systems, and that's learning the DCL command line.  X is going to be 
big and slow and clumsy on a remote link, and it requires you to get a 
local X Window server going for whatever local box you're using.

http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/134

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