[Info-vax] What to do with my VAX.....

[seasoned_geek]

On Saturday, October 17, 2020 at 9:10:35 AM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> ....now that VMS is going to be come persona non grata.
> 
> It has been decades, but, I used to work with an OS written by
> Tannenbaum called Amoeba.  A couple of grad students did a thesis
> project on it using Sparcstations and it was really impressive to
> watch it run.  I had forgotten that it also ran on the VAX.  Might
> be fun to put it on my stack of VAXStations and see what it might
> do.
> 
> By the way, for those who think that VMS is the only real share
> everything clustering system, Amoeba was really good about sharing.
> Too bad, like so  many academic endeavors, people got bored with it
> and it withered on the vine.  Like Plan9 and Inferno.
> 
> bill

I would posit the theory that people didn't "get bored with it" per se. They simply found out they would have to finance their own vices of eating and living indoors. Nobody was paying them to work on/with Amoeba. 

If you do get it running and happen to have full source, you should probably start an OpenSource project on sourceforge. 

There is a growing need for an OS without any TCP/IP stack. *nix did it wrong. There is absolutely no way of securing any system using *nix based TCP/IP when it is connected to the Internet. Lots of places dusting off old proprietary protocols for internal networks, putting one or two sacrificial machines out on the Internet and only installing/allowing the proprietary protocol between them and the internal network.