[Info-vax] VLF Notes: VMware ESXi for VSI/VMS hobbyists

[Dave Froble]

On 12/4/2024 8:25 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2024-12-02, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 12/2/2024 7:56 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> On Tue, 03 Dec 2024 11:16:09 +1100, Subcommandante XDelta wrote:
>>>> We do regret not releasing the LMFgen in the proper, and fitting,
>>>> manner which was originally intended, back in 2012 - as BLISS, and
>>>> VAXC, full source code - also compiled for VAX and AXP, and designed
>>>> for integration as DCL Verbs. We also intended to write the LMFgen as
>>>> a DCL Command Script, so that it was comprehensible to any VMS person
>>>> - DCL is capable of great elegance - the joys of lexical discourse!
>>>
>>> I got hold of that C code, which looked to me like some kind of straight
>>> transliteration of a disassembly of VAX code straight into C. I did try to
>>> clean it up a bit and make it easier to understand what was going on. I
>>> also did a Python version, which added more features.
>>>
>>> Should I make that available somewhere?
>>
>> Maybe:
>>
>> $ del [...]*lmfgen*.*;*
>> $ del [...]*pakgen*.*;*
>> $ del [...]*all_other_tools_intended_for_license_violation*.*;*
>>
>
> $ delete/erase woould be better.
>
> It's nonsense like this that gives the hobbyist community a bad name.
>
> Simon.
>

Might I suggest that hobbyists being able to play with old VAX, Alpha, and 
itanic computers in now way would effect VSI and their endevors.  It might, not 
saying it will, even help VSI in some small manners.

Talking history here.  Just can't see any problems.

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