[Info-vax] Hobbyist licences for VAX

[Dan Cross]

In article <t31tt3$5aq$1 at dont-email.me>,
Jan-Erik Söderholm  <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>Den 2022-04-11 kl. 20:29, skrev Dave Froble:
>> On 4/11/2022 1:53 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2022-04-11, gah4 <gah4 at u.washington.edu> wrote:
>>>> On Monday, April 11, 2022 at 10:00:07 AM UTC-7, Henry Crun wrote:
>>>>
>>>> (snip)
>>>>
>>>>> Or (strictly illegal, at your own risk and I will deny saying this)
>>>>> google for pakgen.c
>>>>
>>>> I haven't read the DMCA so closely, or so recently, but I suspect that 
>>>> setting the
>>>> date back is also illegal.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The other problem is that, in addition to being illegal in its own right,
>>> bypassing old hobbyist licences in this way may make VSI far less generous
>>> when it comes to future hobbyist programs.
>>>
>>> Simon.
>>>
>> 
>> You're amusing ...
>> 
>> Do you imagine there is even one person at VSI that doesn't understand the 
>> issues, and doesn't sympathize with people wanting to play with an old VAX?
>
>In this case, it was not "an old VAX", it was an emulation.
>And in this case, why not emulate an Alpha instead?

What's the status of AXPBox these days?  Does it boot VMS and
run reliably?  I'd love to turn off my aging Alpha, and I've
got an undersubscribed machine that I'm already paying the power
bill on running emulation for other machine/OS combos that
could happy run take over for it.

	- Dan C.