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On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 09:51:42AM -0300, Brian Fraser wrote: > >> Ooh, thank you! I'll push the branch with those changes later today. >> (As a side note, VMS actually sounds like a pretty fun system; I wish that >> I could just emulate it locally) > > In theory you could run it on emulated hardware, as there is a "hobbyist > license" available. There are various Alpha emulators around and I think they all have a free option, usually somewhat limited in memory (can mktables do its think in 128MB?). If you have recent enough HP-UX kit, you can run instances of OpenVMS I64 under HPVM, but then if you have that kind of kit, you can run it without emulation. > But it would be more practical to figure out how to get > an account on HP's OpenVMS Open Source Cluster. > (Cluster - hmmm, only the IA64 machine seems to be up these days) And I believe it's a pretty underpowered ten-year-old Integrity server, but yes, someone else acquired it and set it up, so it's the quickest way to get started. > I have an account, but I'm not sure what the current procedure is to get > one, as I think mine dates back to the enlightened time when HP provided an > entire "Test Drive" service, with most of the hardware and OS combinations > they offered available. I think all you have to do is drop a note to OpenSource DOT OpenVMS AT hp.com, tell them what you're working on, and request an account.Thread Previous | Thread Next