10 Nov
2005
10 Nov
'05
7:15 p.m.
Subject: Re: Ultrix for DECstations
From: Adrian Graham <witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:02:27 +0000
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
(The only load media on this big-iron VAX is a TZ887 tape library so I'm
going to install VMS onto the boot disk by plugging it into a VAX 3100-90
with a BA350 storage shelf then all I have to do is put that disk into the
6660's HSJ50-powered storage array and boot it......try doing THAT on any
other OS :oD VMS is VMS is VMS.....)
A
I've done that for years using RD54s and then SCSI disks, easiest way to do
a VMS install for 20 systems. Do it once then clone the drive, doent matter
what the system varient was so long as it can interface to the drive.
Beat the tar or hackup out of using TK50.
Allison
10 Nov
10 Nov
7:45 p.m.
On 10/11/05 19:15, "Allison" <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> wrote:
Yup, and it's good to watch people's faces when they don't believe that such
behaviour is possible. I also had some fun last week with someone who'd been
'educated' in the ways of Windows 'clusters' - it took him several
minutes
to come to terms with a filesystem that was accessible by any machine in the
cluster *at the same time* and one that was set up in minutes. He wanted to
know why such a filesystem wasn't everywhere and I couldn't honestly answer
him other than saying 'cost'.
A
(The only load
media on this big-iron VAX is a TZ887 tape library so I'm
going to install VMS onto the boot disk by plugging it into a VAX 3100-90
with a BA350 storage shelf then all I have to do is put that disk into the
6660's HSJ50-powered storage array and boot it......try doing THAT on any
other OS :oD VMS is VMS is VMS.....)
A
I've done that for years using RD54s and then SCSI disks, easiest way to do
a VMS install for 20 systems. Do it once then clone the drive, doent matter
what the system varient was so long as it can interface to the drive.
Beat the tar or hackup out of using TK50. 
7:50 p.m.
Adrian Graham wrote:
On 10/11/05 19:15, "Allison" <ajp166 at
bellatlantic.net> wrote:
Yup, and it's good to watch people's faces when they don't believe that such
behaviour is possible. I also had some fun last week with someone who'd been
'educated' in the ways of Windows 'clusters' - it took him several
minutes
to come to terms with a filesystem that was accessible by any machine in the
cluster *at the same time* and one that was set up in minutes. He wanted to
know why such a filesystem wasn't everywhere and I couldn't honestly answer
him other than saying 'cost'.
It's not cost. It's stupidity, unfortunately.
Peace... Sridhar
(The only
load media on this big-iron VAX is a TZ887 tape library so I'm
going to install VMS onto the boot disk by plugging it into a VAX 3100-90
with a BA350 storage shelf then all I have to do is put that disk into the
6660's HSJ50-powered storage array and boot it......try doing THAT on any
other OS :oD VMS is VMS is VMS.....)
A
I've done that for years using RD54s and then SCSI disks, easiest way to do
a VMS install for 20 systems. Do it once then clone the drive, doent matter
what the system varient was so long as it can interface to the drive.
Beat the tar or hackup out of using TK50.
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