[Info-vax] Hobbyist licences for VAX

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 4/11/22 15:19, Dan Cross wrote:
> 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.

Been a couple months since I last tried but I could never get networking
under VMS to work.  Will try again at some point. At the moment I am
busy setting up a bunch of my retro stuff to keep me busy for what I
expect to be a long dismal summer recuperating from knee surgery.

bill