[Info-vax] New guide for hobbyists, OpenVMS 8.4 installation with networking on AXPbox (modern fork of es40)

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-11-09 kl. 11:33, skrev Joukj:
> Remy wrote:
>> Back in 2018 I was trying to run OpenVMS inside es40, but that
>> was quite unstable. Now  Tomáš Glozar has forked es40 to axpbox
>> and notified me about it, it installs OpenVMS without crashing. I wrote a 
>> bit on axpbox here:
>>
>> https://raymii.org/s/blog/Exciting_OpenVMS_Alpha_emulation_news_es40_has_been_forked_to_axpbox.html 
>>
>>
>> I made a few contributions to the codebase, a few other patches floating 
>> around es40 forks, for example to make netbsd boot, and wrote some wiki
>> pages on network setup.
>> For anyone that wants to give OpenVMS 8.4 on Alpha a spin, now that
>> VSI has a hobbyist program, here's my guide how to do that:
>>
>> https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Installing_OpenVMS_8.4_Alpha_in_AXPbox_with_networking.html 
>>
> 
> Thanks very much for writing the tutorials, they were very helpfull.
> BTW form the examples/screenshots  given, may I assume that you are also 
> located in the Netherlansds?)
> 
>>
>> One advantage of this is that you are not limited by the resource quotas 
>> in FreeAXP and can run multiple instances on one computer, so a cluster 
>> should technically be possible. 
> 
> And that it runs on Linux and not on Windhoos.


So this "axpbox" not run on Windows? That is a direct show stopper...