[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Hobbyist Program Announced.

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 6/17/2019 1:19 PM, Andrew Brehm wrote:
> On Monday, 17 June 2019 18:07:18 UTC+2, John H. Reinhardt  wrote:
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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.
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>> I do this regularly and without problems.  Get a better terminal emulator.  Mine works fine.
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> That is a problem with the emulator, not the terminal emulator.
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> If you do it regularly, you are probably using a different Alpha emulator.
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You don't read well, do you?  I don't use ANY Alpha emulator.  I have a real, non-emulated AlphaServer DS10 and two XP1000 workstations.  I have no problem whatsoever transferring the PAK files to the console line via EM-Tec's ZOC7 terminal emulator from my Mac.  Regularly in this case means once a year when I renew my HP(E) Hobbyist program PAKs.

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>>> It also installs nicely in a Windows environment.
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>> 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.
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> I recommend Parallels on Macs, that is how I use Windows on my Mac.

Oracle VirtualBox is free.  I used VMWare Fusion from V4 through V8 and got tired of paying for upgrades.  I don't need Parallels.  I barely need VirtualBox.  As I said, I haven't found a need to fire up Windows for anything in over a year.  I'm not going to do ti to run OpenVMS when I have perfectly good, REAL hardware available.

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>> Or I'd have BUY an Windows PC.  No thanks. I've been working hard to eliminate those things.
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> I like Windows. PowerShell is much like the DCL and I really don't like Unix so much. But to each his own.
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Powershell is available on macOS and Linux, for that matter.  I'm comfortable with bash.


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John H. Reinhardt