[Info-vax] VSI has a new CEO

[Dave Froble]

On 8/5/2021 8:40 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 8/5/2021 4:09 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>> In article <sef7om$i74$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
>> <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>>>>> Current customers presumably.  There are probably folks waiting in
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> wings, maybe until VMS runs on bare-metal x86, before they consider
>>>>>> whether to port.
>>>>>
>>>>> VSI has said this will happen.
>>>>
>>>> Right.
>>>>
>>>>> So why would anyone wait?  For today,
>>>>> VMS on x86 is the future.
>>>>
>>>> Right.  But if people want to port their application to bare-metal x86,
>>>> few if any will start before that bare-metal x86 is available.
>>>
>>> Now that is just plain wrong.  VMS is VMS, regardless if running in a VM
>>> instance, or not.  Actually, VM instances will be better for porting
>>> work.  One doesn't need a production level computer to do porting work.
>>
>> Sure, but do you expect people with no previous VM experience to learn
>> about VMs just to port VMS so that they have a head start on the time
>> when VMS doesn't need a VM on x86?
>
> I don't see the big problem.
>
> If we are talking about a corporate environment, then you request
> the number of VM with given specs and the VMWare guru do the
> work.
>
> If we are talking about developer/hobbyist usage, then one
> download some VM software, install it, start it, choose
> create new VM, specify specs, save and start. It is really
> no big deal, less than hour, anybody outside the "I can't find
> the ANY key on the keyboard" segment can do it.
>
> Arne
>
>

I figured that I should be able to have a system running Virtualbox with 
an instance of all/most older versions of WEENDOZE available.  XP worked 
fine.  I think I might have gotten W95 running, don't remember, but 
WEENDOZE 2000 didn't happen.  The major issues was the devices required 
to install, for 2000 it required floppy disks.  Probably doable, but I 
didn't figure it out, guessing it was just me being the problem.  Or 
just lazy.

What I did accomplish was to convince myself that I could get a VMS 
instance that is intended to run on Virtualbox up and running with 
little effort, and that was the objective.

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