5 Jun
2012
5 Jun
'12
6:33 p.m.
On 06/05/2012 01:41 PM, Michael Kerpan wrote:
Personally, I tend to think that if you have a VAX, it
would be more
fun to use VMS, WASD (a native web server for VMS with lots of cool
features including support for all the usual web languages plus DCL)
and the database of your choice (either native RMS tables for simple
stuff, Rdb if you can get it or MySQL if you can't) than to try and
get some BSD-based system set up.
Perhaps, but much of today's web services are run on some flavor of
UNIX (usually Linux, but that's a less-important distinction) along with
Apache, PHP, and MySQL. Doing this means 75% of preexisting "web apps"
(hate that term) will just plug in and run. I'm not the guy who did
this, and I don't know what his motivation was, but to me, this is less
about fun and more about proving, usually to curmudgeons, that VAXen can
do quite a bit of real work.
I applaud his work.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA