Re: Teen caught in the wrong decade: VMS today



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On 28 Dec 2005 15:05:13 -0800, "Mike  Nolan" <mpnolan@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


Greetings.

I'm 18 and a geek, and I've often wished that I had grown up in the
'80s rather than the late '90s. I read stories by more elder geeks
about their first programming experiences with BASIC on X old machine
at their grandpa's house, and I read textfiles.com, and everything just
seemed more fun back then. Today, it seems like software has gotten so
complex that it's a lot more work to see the whole system, to feel like
you're almost a few steps behind knowing everything :).

Since I don't have a time machine yet, I've decided to instead bring
those times to me. VMS interests me, but all I have around are x86
machines. So I'm wondering if you guys have any recommendations on
hardware I could buy and where to do it.

I'd like to run a server with Telnet/SSH access so that I can play with
it from school or give friends accounts. A webserver would be cool,
too--maybe this OSU thing that my university runs :P. Otherwise, my
needs aren't too complex. I'll probably mostly be using it in text
mode.

It would be nice to only spend around $100, but that's probably a pipe
dream.


Hunt around for a microVAX3100 or 4000 that works.  They are common
enough and do turn up for free or close to it.   I might add it's a
real VAX to run VMS on.  ;)

Allison



Agreed. It's pretty nice (if not downright weird) booting VMS on simh or
another emulator on
a windows or linux system.
But nothing beats running it on your own hardware...A used VAX is not
expensive, most of mine
were given away.

Hans

VMS in 1985 had clusters with locking at the record level, the high up time, reliability, in short, better than anything today. You need a mouse for point and click, X Windows was the solution.


Marketing was non existent and Palmer even pushed NT, which Microsoft abandonded on Alpha.

Still, it remains the most reliable operating system.

However, keeping up with the kids and the latest OS's, who will work cheap is a losing proposition.




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