[Info-vax] Special deals on Tape Drives

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/8/2022 1:57 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-03-08, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>> Den 2022-03-08 kl. 02:53, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
>>>
>>> I am aware of it.
>>>
>>> But it is not my impression that it is widely used.
>>
>> Can't use it since it requires Python 3.
> 
> I had to install Python 3 on my Android phone recently and wanted
> to run some proper Unix CLI tools on the phone to go with it. :-)
> 
> I did it by installing PRoot into a supported terminal emulator
> running on Android, then unpacking a barebones Alpine Linux userland
> image on top of that, and then installing Python 3 from the
> Alpine software repository.
> 
> That's the kind of thing you can now do outside of the VMS world...

There are way more people using Linux ARM than VMS Alpha which is why
Python 3 is available for Linux ARM but not for VMS Alpha.

But installation wise I think I prefer the VMS way over the above.

Arne