[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Hobbyist Program Announced.

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 6/17/2019 7:18 AM, Andrew Brehm wrote:
> On Friday, 14 June 2019 15:20:40 UTC+2, John H. Reinhardt  wrote:
>> <https://training.vmssoftware.com/hobbyist/?fbclid=IwAR2Fen_xpZ9EKGsI4ERi9Pzii-HJkwGXJLVNxLn97SDX7v5OTUnu2S9-NPQ>
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>> To be blunt, this is a huge step down from the HP program for us that have our own compatible hardware and want to run it 24/7 or at least not have to redo the license every 180 days.
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> It's already better since it comes with a VMS image already licensed and good to go, as opposed to requiring the transmission of license files via a very bad faulty serial line emulator.

I do this regularly and without problems.  Get a better terminal emulator.  Mine works fine.

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> It also installs nicely in a Windows environment.
> 

I suppose I could fire up my Windows 7 environment inside my Oracle VirtualBox emulator on my Mac.  I haven't needed it in over a year.  Then I'd have to extract the OpenVMS installation and copy it to my non-emulated Alphaserver DS10 and XP1000 systems.  What a pain.

Or I'd have BUY an Windows PC.  No thanks. I've been working hard to eliminate those things.

> Only problem is that the changing the default emulator configuration runs into lots of problems with relative vs absolute paths.
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John H. Reinhardt