[Info-vax] Hobbyist licences for VAX

[Dave Froble]

On 4/11/2022 5:42 PM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-04-11 at 17:50 +0000, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2022-04-11, Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell at munted.eu> wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I have booted up my simh VAX instances for the first time for years
>>> and
>>> I find that the hobbyist licences I had for these had expired ages
>>> ago.
>>>
>>> HP/Montager doesn't do them any more and VSI only do Alpha or x64.
>>> Are there any other ways I can obtain hobbyist licences?
>>>
>>
>> So others have already pointed out, the VAX hobbyist program is about
>> as alive as the Norwegian Blue Parrot.
>>
>> Alternative operating systems you can run are either an old version
>> of OpenBSD or the current version of NetBSD. In either case, you
>> might
>> want to do something else while it's generating the SSH server keys.
>> :-)
>
> Thanks to all who replied. I think I'll move my stuff off the VAX
> images onto ES40 and use Alpha instead. I've now applied for a
> community licence for Alpha/VMS.
>
> Although the question of how I can transfer my stuff off VAX images
> without TCP/IP licence remains unanswered :-D
>
> Cheers,
> Alex
>

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