5 Jun
2012
5 Jun
'12
4:38 p.m.
On 5 June 2012 16:28, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
I was really hoping the V in the acronym was going to be VMS.
That certainly would have been much more impressive!
Given the amount of entertainment from some of the packages getting
them working on the VAX platform on a current supported OS, that would
have been a whole new level :)
It's just another *nix box unless you're
running VMS.
Granted, though I would contest its at least an interesting
(hardware-wise) *nix box :)
Retro-computing has various strands - emulators provide massive
accessibility for running old software for those without access to
original hardware, and some of us like running current software on
retro-hardware. I feel there is real benefit for current developers to
remain aware of the characteristics of past hardware, and running
current as well as contemporary software helps, but that may just be
me :)