[Info-vax] X86 first boot? - A Really Stupid Question

[Michael Moroney]

Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:

>On 2019-03-29 22:30:30 +0000, Scott Dorsey said:

>> There's a lot of this, and when it happens we figure it out.  We plug 
>> the UPS into a Windows machine with the vendor's driver and look at 
>> what is going down the serial line with a terminal Y-cabled off the 
>> port.  Then we write a driver.

>Or VSI or a third-party looks at open-source implementations, where 
>that's available.

>VSI will likely be tied up with core I/O and permutations for at least 
>a little while.  Networking, USB, storage, serial, etc.

>OpenVMS does not now support UPS control, though there is at least one 
>third-party add-on package available for OpenVMS.
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The UPS stuff was a midnight project for myself, not for a commercial project
or entity.  About 15 years ago.

Last I looked at the VSI roadmap and internal info, UPS control for VMS is not
anywhere on the list...