[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Hobbyist Program Announced.

[Andrew Brehm]

On Monday, 17 June 2019 18:07:18 UTC+2, John H. Reinhardt  wrote:

> > 
> > 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.

That is a problem with the emulator, not the terminal emulator.

If you do it regularly, you are probably using a different Alpha emulator.


 
> > 
> > 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.
>

I recommend Parallels on Macs, that is how I use Windows on my Mac.

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

I like Windows. PowerShell is much like the DCL and I really don't like Unix so much. But to each his own.