21 Mar
2000
21 Mar
'00
11:33 p.m.
>I *think* I've got enough other boards to
populate the others with 16Meg,
>but I'm not quite sure... My tough parts are hard drives... I've only got
>2, an RZ24L & an RZ25. Are there utilities to make a non-DEC hard drive
That would make a fine VAX, and that enough disk to run fair amount of
stuff under VMS.
work in a VAX?
I need to put in an order for a couple of SCSI drives
anyway... and I could get a couple 1 or 2 gig drives at the same time.
OpenVMS V7.2 is a lot more forgiving about that than say V5.5, however,
there is no guarentee until you try it. If your best system is a
VAXstation 3100 M38 you're probably limited to 1GB on the *BOOT* disk. I do want to
see what the box will do with DECwindows... are there any good
spreadsheet/presentation apps for that? Erm... this might be a stretch, but
There is at least one spreadsheet'ish app available, though I've no idea
how good it is. No idea on the Presentation apps. For Word Processing
there is DECwrite. >isn't there a Netscape or Mosaic for that too?
(I'm not too interested in
>turning the box into a 'net appliance, but mainly just to show people --
>"Look! I got Nutscrape to run on this!" I co-own an ISP, and I'd bet
that
>none of the other ISP's could get that working, so it might make a strange
>but helpful bragging point - "We support VAXen!")
There are several browsers, newreaders and also server software out there
for VMS. I believe Apache too.
Allison