4 Jan
2002
4 Jan
'02
2:31 p.m.
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Pat Finnegan wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Ron Hudson wrote:
Get a bunch of VAXstation 4000/VLC's, and you will have a nice little
low-power fast VAXcluster.
Yup, I could "help" them, probably set
the effort back
at least a year... :^)
Also: speed. Sorry, but the new Dual ath 1.4G I hope to get with Xmas
money would be tons faster than and old VAX 8650. Not as fun to play with
the little computer, but much easier to carry without a pallet mover. On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 19:46, Boatman on the River
of Suck wrote:
> Why not just get a VAX (or two or three?)
$$ and X*Y*Z (money and space) :^)
I have not-too-much experince with VMS, so bear with me, but wouldn't it
be possible to do one of the following options:
1) Stick an 'emulation' user-mode shell on top of some free *nix
2) Take a stock free *nix kernel, and modify it to work more like VMS.
But then you still wouldn't have compatibility with VMS. Get a VAXstation
4000/VLC and start playing with it, and you will see how fun it is. Plus
it will use *significantly* less space, power, and cooling than that
junky PC.
Peace... Sridhar