VAX/VMS Assistance Requested - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

22 Dec 1998

-----Original Message-----
From: Wirehead Prime &lt;wirehead(a)retrocomputing.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Wednesday, 23 December 1998 13:04
Subject: Re: VAX/VMS Assistance Requested

...
 Just for sake of description, I'm using a Mac SE
running System 7.0.1 as
a console to the Vax.  =-) 

I won't hold it against you.  Whatever works. ;^)

...
 I do not have a qbus ethernet board.  Someone on the
list had them for
$50 but I'm wretchedly poor so I make due with serial connections to my
freebie machines. 

Familiar feeling....:^)  I also have a Microvax II sans ethernet.

...
 It's running VMS5.3-1.  But that just gave me an
idea.  Someone on the list
said they were doing Decnet with a Linux box.  I spend ALL my time every
day hacking on Linux boxes and have several at home.  Hmmm...I'll have to
dig back through the list postings!  =-) 
Hmm, NetBSD supports Microvax II's pretty well these days.  If you are
more comfortable with that than VMS.   (Keep the VMS license PAK's though,
you will need them if you want to reinstall VMS at some future time.)

This is the URL to the DECnet for Linux page....
http://linux.dreamtime.org/decnet/

I don't know if it works over a serial port connection on a Vax though....

Cheers

Geoff Roberts
Computer Systems Manager
Saint Marks College
Port Pirie  South Australia.
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