8 Mar
2007
8 Mar
'07
11:48 a.m.
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Scott Quinn wrote:
That would be difficult. OpenVMS AXP can be done (but
is not convenient -
I've been keeping tabs on the Hobbyist distro and they're trying to remaster
with v8.2, but it is slow).
v8.anything VAX would require acquisition of sources and backporting. VAX
support stopped at 7.3 (boo, hiss, and all that I suppose).
BTW, excl. a better SSH (which can be done with Multinet or TCPware, see
www.process.com [they even have hobbyist licenses]) what are the advantages
of v8 for you?
I didn't realise VAX ended with 7.3 and was hoping for a 7.3-2, had no
real need for 8. I have a fairly recent (last few years IIRC) consolidated
distribution and had anticipated that the current versions of various
things I wanted to play with (X.400 and X.500) might require 7.3-2, but
since there isn't one for VAX they can't! And can get round the ssh issue
if a v1 protocol version did ship with last TCP/IP for VAX.
Andrew