[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. 12:16, skrev Remy van Elst:
> Op maandag 9 november 2020 om 12:08:24 UTC+1 schreef 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?
> 
> Yes. I'll add an issue to add a pre-built release for downloading, that's a good idea.
> 
> Building isn't that much work, install the free version of visual studio, enter the github url, click build. that should be it.
> Same on linux, install development packages, checkout repository, run cmake to build.
> 

OK, thanks! I'm not doing any development on Windows so I'm not current
in the tools available. I have looked at VS Code (with the VMS extensions),
but the "code" versions of VS maybe isn't enough...