8 Jul
1998
8 Jul
'98
5:20 a.m.
This started as a joke, but turned into something interesting.
Someone posted on alt.os.multics about setting a UNIX to pop up the VM/SP
logo from /etc/issue. I did one better and crocked up a way to make UNIX
actually act like VM/SP at the logon (Mutilated copy of telnetd and a new login program).
The question is, what was VM/SP? I know it was IBMs, and it ran on large
mainframes. Where can I find information about it?
Oh, if you want to see the results of my screwing around (And my first
hackery in C that ever worked!) telnet at ubani.umtec.com.
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8 Jul
8 Jul
8:44 a.m.
This started as a joke, but turned into something interesting.
Someone posted on alt.os.multics about setting a UNIX to pop up the VM/SP
logo from /etc/issue. I did one better and crocked up a way to make UNIX
actually act like VM/SP at the logon (Mutilated copy of telnetd and a new login
program).
The question is, what was VM/SP? I know it was IBMs, and it ran on large
mainframes. Where can I find information about it?
Oh, if you want to see the results of my screwing around (And my first
hackery in C that ever worked!) telnet at ubani.umtec.com.
Slick... Looks like the Profs login I had at IBM.
Here's mine... I've got a case of VAX/VMS envy.
The motd quotes are from the BSD Fortune program.
One day I hope for real FreeVMS at home. (although I'm quite happy
with FreeBSD...)
$telnet localhost
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
FreeVMS 1.0 alpha (i4got) (ttyp3)
Username: pechter
Password:
Last login: Wed Jul 8 16:30:48 from algw2.lucent.com
Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD i4got.pechter.org 2.2.6-STABLE-Fri Jun 5 21:45:21 EDT 1998
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| Quotations from chairman Ken |
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"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their
home."
-- Ken Olsen, President of DEC, World Future Society
Convention, 1977
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One of the questions that comes up all the time is: How
enthusiastic is our support for UNIX?
Unix was written on our machines and for our machines many
years ago. Today, much of UNIX being done is done on our machines.
Ten percent of our VAXs are going for UNIX use. UNIX is a simple
language, easy to understand, easy to get started with. It's great for
students, great for somewhat casual users, and it's great for
interchanging programs between different machines. And so, because of
its popularity in these markets, we support it. We have good UNIX on
VAX and good UNIX on PDP-11s.
It is our belief, however, that serious professional users will
run out of things they can do with UNIX. They'll want a real system and
will end up doing VMS when they get to be serious about programming.
With UNIX, if you're looking for something, you can easily and
quickly check that small manual and find out that it's not there. With
VMS, no matter what you look for -- it's literally a five-foot shelf of
documentation -- if you look long enough it's there. That's the
difference -- the beauty of UNIX is it's simple; and the beauty of VMS
is that it's all there.
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