[Info-vax] OSes

[Bill Cunningham]

"Stephen Hoffman" <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote in message 
news:n76jem$uqi$1 at dont-email.me...
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> 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

That's all great stuff above. But I run linux and XP x64 on my machine. I 
don't have OS X. Since it's proprietary idk if you can use an emulator for 
it.

Bill