[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. 12:02, skrev 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)

OK, fine! But you have to build/link it locally on your own Windows system?