Re: Random: VMS inspired Dell managed switch?

On Oct 15, 8:29 pm, billg...@xxxxxxxxxxx (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
In article <0799490b-cac1-408d-9d46-07e532ccc...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
samp...@xxxxxxxxx writes:



I've just ordered a Dell PowerConnect 5448 and was reading through the
manual and came across the following which I found quite intriguing /
amusing:

01-Jan-xxxx 01:01:59 %INIT-I-InitCompleted: Initialization task is
completed
01-Jan-xxxx 01:02:00 %SNMP-I-CDBITEMSNUM: Number of running
configuration items
loaded: 0
01-Jan-xxxx 01:02:00 %SNMP-I-CDBITEMSNUM: Number of startup
configuration items
loaded: 0
01-Jan-xxxx 01:02:01 %Box-I-SFP-PRESENT-CHNG: unit_id 1 SFP 0 status
is not present.

Interesting message code format, no? And the date is of course in a
very VMS-like format too.

Could be because the box appears to be using something connected to
VxWorks5.5.1. Wasn't/isn't that an offshoot of VMS?

bill

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No connection between VMS and VxWorks that I'm aware of, not even when
I was working in DEC UK embedded+realtime team (before they were sold
off). Maybe you're confusing VxWorks with VAXELN. When DEC HQ decided
distributed realtime executive VAXELN (which used VMS as the
development environment and did have a few VMS-like features and
compatibilities) wasn't going to be implemented on Alpha, they decided
to offer a rebadged and slightly value-added Tru64-hosted VxWorks
instead (with almost nothing in common between VxWorks and VAXELN).
Initially it wasn't even called VxWorks (the Ultrix-hosted version was
called DECelx).
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