[Info-vax] State of the OpenVMS hobbyist program?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-11-17, IanD <iloveopenvms at gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps advance on from the Vax to an alpha?
>
> https://training.vmssoftware.com/hobbyist/
>
> It's more limited compared to the HP hobbyist program that used to include clustering as well but it's at least something from VSI after a long wait
>

This is more of a student turnkey system than a hobbyist kit.

The real question is what happens when the licence in the kit expires.

Can you load a new licence into your existing version of the kit
(hence preserving your custom configuration) or are you expected to
customise a new system disk from scratch whenever the VSI licences expire ?

I asked that question here but never got an answer from VSI other than
it was aimed as a student learning kit and not as a traditional
experienced VMS hobbyist environment.

Simon.

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