7 Mar
2007
7 Mar
'07
5:11 p.m.
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Jules Richardson wrote:
That would be difficult. OpenVMS AXP can be done (but is not convenient
- I've been keeping tabs on the Hobbyist distro and they're trying to
remaster with v8.2, but it is slow).
v8.anything VAX would require acquisition of sources and backporting.
VAX support stopped at 7.3 (boo, hiss, and all that I suppose).
BTW, excl. a better SSH (which can be done with Multinet or TCPware,
see www.process.com [they even have hobbyist licenses]) what are the
advantages of v8 for you?
Jim MacKenzie wrote:
Speaking of which, and continuing my wantwantwant: does anyone have a
fairly recent OpenVMS VAX (i.e. beyond 7.3-something, whatever version
shipped TCP/IP with ssh v2, or better) ? In return I can assist with
kits
from a recent-ish CONDIST for OpenVMS VAX. Hello,
I just recently got approved as a participant on the list.
Welcome, pull up a VAX cluster etc. :-) 
7 Mar
7 Mar
5:48 p.m.
New subject: OpenVMS (was Re: New subscriber)
Speaking of
which, and continuing my wantwantwant: does anyone have a
fairly recent OpenVMS VAX (i.e. beyond 7.3-something, whatever version
shipped TCP/IP with ssh v2, or better) ? In return I can assist with
kits
from a recent-ish CONDIST for OpenVMS VAX.
That would be difficult. OpenVMS AXP can be done (but is not convenient
- I've been keeping tabs on the Hobbyist distro and they're trying to
remaster with v8.2, but it is slow).
v8.anything VAX would require acquisition of sources and backporting.
VAX support stopped at 7.3 (boo, hiss, and all that I suppose). BTW, excl. a better SSH (which can be done with
Multinet or TCPware,
see www.process.com [they even have hobbyist licenses]) what are the
advantages of v8 for you?
I'm still running 7.3-2 on my primary XP1000, my secondary XP1000 has 8.3 on
it, but I've not even had time to install the license PAKs (needless to say
the second system isn't powered on). If you're wondering what it will get
you, I'd recommend looking at the release notes for V8.2 and V8.3. I
believe one of the big selling points is greater ease in porting from Unix.
IIRC, there are also some SMTP enhancements that I'm interested in. Oh, the
HP supported Samba V3 is another big advantage.
At the moment my big problem is I need a newer version of PHP and MySQL.
One of these days when I have the time, I'll duplicate my system disk and
upgrade my primary to V8.3, though I believe I might have to include a RDB
upgrade in that plan. I'd been holding off waiting for a version of RDB
that supports V8.3 (been out for a couple months at least), and for a reason
to retire Pathworks for Mac (Appletalk). The DST patches gave me a reason
to retire Appletalk from my system. Appletalk was keeping me at a low
patchlevel on 7.3-2 and keeping me from upgrading my Mac past 10.3.9, now I
need to find time to upgrade the OS on both systems.
Zane
8 Mar
8 Mar
11:48 a.m.
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Scott Quinn wrote:
That would be difficult. OpenVMS AXP can be done (but
is not convenient -
I've been keeping tabs on the Hobbyist distro and they're trying to remaster
with v8.2, but it is slow).
v8.anything VAX would require acquisition of sources and backporting. VAX
support stopped at 7.3 (boo, hiss, and all that I suppose).
BTW, excl. a better SSH (which can be done with Multinet or TCPware, see
www.process.com [they even have hobbyist licenses]) what are the advantages
of v8 for you?
I didn't realise VAX ended with 7.3 and was hoping for a 7.3-2, had no
real need for 8. I have a fairly recent (last few years IIRC) consolidated
distribution and had anticipated that the current versions of various
things I wanted to play with (X.400 and X.500) might require 7.3-2, but
since there isn't one for VAX they can't! And can get round the ssh issue
if a v1 protocol version did ship with last TCP/IP for VAX.
Andrew
12:46 p.m.
Andrew Back wrote:
I didn't realise VAX ended with 7.3 and was hoping
for a 7.3-2, had no
real need for 8. I have a fairly recent (last few years IIRC) consolidated
distribution and had anticipated that the current versions of various
things I wanted to play with (X.400 and X.500) might require 7.3-2, but
since there isn't one for VAX they can't! And can get round the ssh
issue if a v1 protocol version did ship with last TCP/IP for VAX.
I've used both, and I've found that Multinet performs better than the
DEC TCP/IP.
Peace... Sridhar
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