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

[Joukj]

Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> 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.

Sorry I meant to say:
And that it runs on Linux and not on Windhoos only.

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