On 09/26/2012 05:20 PM, David Brownlee wrote:
On 26 September 2012 06:58, Adrian Stoness
<tdk.knight at gmail.com> wrote:
is it even usefull anymore
Which leads on to the slightly more perverse vintage computing option
- running a current OS and (subset of) apps (and then finding a case
where the VAX was the only available machine on a segment on to run a
dhcp server :)
Of course at one point the VAX ended up running RT-11 under under
simh. I was going to try VMS under simh as well but ran out of time...
(That would tick all the boxes of "vintage hardware", "current OS",
"vintage OS", and "needs to get out more")
Don't forget "does far more interesting things than his neighbors who
spend their time watching other people chase a ball around in the grass".
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA