28 Mar
2024
28 Mar
'24
5:02 p.m.
Sorry if I intrude... now is no more possible to obtain hobbyist licenses for vms ??
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From: Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2024 5:57 PM
To: Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com>om>; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
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Cc: Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon(a)hotmail.com>
Subject: [cctalk] Re: Amoeba OS
On 3/28/2024 12:47 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
On Thu, Mar 28, 2024, 5:37 PM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org <mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote:
I know this is a real long shot but is there any chance someone
has a copy of the original distribution of the Amoeba OS from
the University in the Netherlands? Searching the web finds only
the current version which runs on X86. I am looking for the
original which also ran on Sparc and (of the most interest to
me) the VAX.
https://github.com/OSPreservProject/amoeba
<https://github.com/OSPreservProject/amoeba> has the sun binaries but
not the vax/mips binaries.
That's the current version. I am surprised they have Sun but
I also expect it is not the Suns from the original which were
Sun 3 and Sparc pizza boxes.
We used the Sparc version at the University of Scranton. Some Grad
students did research and their thesis on Amoeba. We had a whole lab
dedicated to it and it was really cool.
I have a nice stack of Vaxstation 3100's sitting around and now that
you can no longer get hobbyist licenses for VMS I thought it might
be fun to create an Amoeba Cluster. If any like minded people popped
up it might be fun to try and build a really large and widely separated
cluster just to see if it would have been possible.
bill