From: Michael Kerpan
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 1:44 PM
If you follow the SIMH list at all, you may have heard
that the
preliminary version of a VAXstation 2000 emulator has been released
upon the world. Judging from what I've heard on the VMS newsgroup, a
system like that really works best with an older (4.x-era) version of
VMS along with the VWS workstation software.
I saw the discussion on the SimH list, then on alt.os.vms.
I used to have one of these under my desk at Stanford, but I've never
seen one running VMS. All of ours were running Ultrix; I'd like to
repeat that experience one of these days, though I doubt I'd be able
to find a copy of the X Window System, Release 10, such as I started
with.
Much of the discussion on c.o.v. had to do with the sluggishness of the
2000 under VMS. I found it a sprightly little beast under Ultrix, well
able to support X (both 10 and 11), but then, we didn't burden it with
Motif and all the other crap that underlay DECwindows, just raw X.
I remember the changeover from GNU Emacs 17.<something> to 18, doing the
work now done by autoconfig by hand and compiling.
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be, that's for sure!
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at
vulcan.com
mailto:RichA at
LivingComputerMuseum.org
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