5 Jun
2012
5 Jun
'12
10:13 p.m.
On 5 Jun 2012, at 21:32, Dave McGuire wrote:
An up-to-date AMP stack is not 'just a webserver' though, it includes modern
versions of widespread languages like PHP 5.x and MySQL 5.0 or 5.5. Other scripting
languages and databases are available (and I encourage people to look at them at least in
passing).
I appreciate web servers on VAX are not new, hell a lot of the Internet's popular
early academic and institutional web content was served out off VAXen (probably running
UNIX or VMS) back in the late 80s/early 90s.
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On 06/05/2012 04:23 PM, Richard wrote:
>>> 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 :)
As Phil Schiller would have it (well known for delivering the MOST boring Apple keynote
segments ever) "It's all about the Hardware AND the Software". ;)
Yes, I
don't mean to belittle the accomplishment; VAX is different
enough from x86/ARM/MIPS that having *nix running on it with a modern
software stack is interesting, I was just hoping it was going to be
VMS.
There is nothing at all news about a web server running on VMS, even
on a VAX. There's off-the-shelf stuff to do that, and there has been
for many years.