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

[Remy van Elst]

Op maandag 9 november 2020 om 12:00:36 UTC+1 schreef 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...

It runs on Windows, Mac OS and linux (anywhere you have a reasonable C++ 11 compiler, GCC, Clang or MSVC).