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

[Dave Froble]

On 11/9/2020 9:29 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2020-11-09 kl. 15:08, skrev 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.
>>
>
> What is Windhoos?
>
>

Oops, someone else has irritated Jan-Erik ...

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