[Info-vax] VSI VMS V8.4-2L2 availability?

[Slo]

> I'm not sure why you're looking at emulators as long as the XP1000 is working. 
> If it is what you need, then use it. Sometime down the road you'll be able to 
> run VMS in a VM instance on x86. That will make things easier.

Because the hardware will die eventually, plus it's noisy and bulky.

What I do now is compile on the XP1000, then, for the .C or .H file I last
modified, I hit just one key from my editor, which does this:

$COPY/FTP/ASCII/PASSIVE/LOG {file} 192.168.0.84"username password"::"/dka0/myproj1/src/{file}"
192.168.0.84 is my FreeAXP OpenVMS on my desktop Windows 10. 
(I don't use DECnet on either box, but the above syntax works beautifully.
File attributes are preserved, it just works!)

I then may run the (much slower) compile+link on FreeAXP, so my myproj1
sources on both boxes are 100% in sync.
But even this slow build is just fine, as just a few files are usually touched. 
Of course, I can edit the sources on the FreeAXP, and then use the above 
command to FTP over to the XP1000 -- it's perfectly symmetrical. 

Next steps: 
1. Try FreeAXP on my mediocre laptop, so I don't have to be at the desk at all.
2. Try AXPbox

After about 15 years of not touching OpenVMS, I'm having fun again.