[Info-vax] compile for VAX 8650 system
Scott Dorsey
kludge at panix.com
Wed Jun 8 10:12:52 EDT 2016
Stanley F. Quayle <stanley.f.quayle at gmail.com> wrote:
>If you are building a system from "scratch", you will need to find the VAXe=
>ln tool kit, VMS, etc. etc. But if you image all the disks from the existin=
>g system to an emulator, your existing disks come over with all that stuff =
>ready to go.
If there is a host machine that exists, you can image it. If there are
ancient backups of the host machine, you might be able to restore them.
Finding this is 75% of the struggle.
The problem is most of the VaxELN machines out there have long ago lost all
of that stuff. Only the client binaries remain.
--scott
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