16 Mar
2010
16 Mar
'10
10:35 p.m.
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Kevin Monceaux <Kevin at rawfeddogs.net> wrote:
Liam,
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:56:32PM +0000, Liam Proven wrote:
That's a good point - thanks for the idea.
I had thought that one way to go might be to get SIMH running and
net-boot the VAXstation off that, if I couldn't find a suitable
CD-ROM. But meantime, this might be my best bet for now.
So after a few hours' fiddling, I now have OpenVMS 7.3 installed on a
SIMH VAX under Ubuntu 9.10 (64-bit)! This has been rather entertaining
The snag is, although I have an ancient hobbyist CD, I don't have a
licence & the UK user group doesn't seem to do free memberships. I've
emailed their VMS chap to ask how I might proceed...
Many thanks for the reminder! I do at least feel that I am on the way
now, but it's not the same as the real thing, is it? :?)
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I think that's unlikely, unfortunately. Part
of the reason I want to brush
up my meagre VMS skills is 'cos I am out of work at the moment, and
remarkably, I am seeing a few tech support positions out there that want
VMS experience.
If your main goal is brushing up you VMS skills have you considered running
VMS under an emulator on your PC? ?There's a howto on installing/running VMS
under SIMH at:
http://www.wherry.com/gadgets/retrocomputing/vax-simh.html
Also, I'm not familiar with the details but I think it's possible to install
VMS under SIMH and set it up to act as a boot server where you could use it
to boot your VAXStation over the network.
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Kevin
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