As expected, in a web seminar just now, VSI confirmed that there will
not be any kind of hobbyist license for VAX from them. The Community
License program will include Alpha, Integrity, and x86. It remains to be
seen exactly what the terms will be.
Hunter
versions circulating over the
Internet, are they any good?
All versions of VMS are good. ;-) But later versions certainly have more
features. If I were starting just to play with it, I'd start with V7.3.
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It runs on all
platforms, but requires whatever version of VMS introduced the PTD$
routines.
http://vms.process.com/scripts/fileserv/fileserv_search.exe?package=hglogin===Either=All===
If you're not familiar with my VMS freeware archive:
http://www.process.com/resources/openvms/index.html
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Pardon the reminiscing, but all of this talk about the 11/730 reminds me
of my first job after college. At WKU, we had a VAX 11/785. After
graduating, I went to work for Clyde Digital Systems. When I got there,
I was surprised at the several bookcases full of SF novels scattered
around the
I should have also highlighted the two series of articles that you may
find useful as you play with VMS.
This is from the link I posted previously:
During that eight-year period, I wrote a dozen articles about
programming in MACRO-32, the VAX assembly language. At one time,
that was
rofessional-articles/
And if you're not familiar with my VMS freeware archive, it contains a
ton of great freeware for VMS, and many of the packages will run on old
versions of VMS, too.
http://www.process.com/resources/openvms/index.html
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On 3/12/2020 8:11 AM, Gary Lee Phillips wrote:
What is the earliest version of VMS available for the Alpha? Anyone know?
6.2. There was OpenVMS Alpha V1.5, but it wasn't a full release, if
memory serves. V6.2 was the first fully-functional release. That's the
first version for which we
On 3/8/2020 8:57 AM, Craig Berry wrote:
HPE does not need to be selling or supporting the software in order to collect
royalties from those who do, and I suspect the commercial emulator vendors have
the ability to issue PAKs for new and transferred VAX licenses, and make money
for themselves
On 3/7/2020 5:37 PM, Gary Lee Phillips wrote:
Yes, quite important seems to be an understatement. HPE is dropping
the program, apparently because the OpenVMS product line is now the
responsibility of VSI. But I can find no sign that VSI will continue
the hobbyist license program in any form.
On 7/20/2018 3:53 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Well, I can at least confirm on a real 8650, the network also briefly
goes down and up again when DECnet is started. If I remember it even
happens independent of if you have the machine in a cluster or not.
Thanks.
As a followup, the SIMH
On 7/20/2018 9:20 AM, Mark Pizzolato wrote:
I agree with Paul completely here and I wonder, at least for the sake of proving
the USB device is or is not a factor, why not merely share the host system's
primary LAN. Nothing special to get this to work except changing the
ATTACH XQ argument in
On 7/20/2018 7:58 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
Is that the Ethernet interface down/up that happens when DECnet sets the MAC
address? I assume you don't have a card that supports multiple MAC addresses.
It probably is. That makes total sense, and I should have realized that.
On the USB thing: USB
Hi, Dave.
I run an ESXi host on a USDT system and use a USB3 LAN dongle to give
me a seperate network for user/management traffic so I can use the
onboard one for iSCSI. This was done following the artivle here:
On 7/19/2018 10:34 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote:
The improvement by setting the port speed to 10Mbit suggests
that packet loss/overruns are happening and they are reduced
by limiting the wire speed.
Agreed, though nothing ever indicated any errors or overruns: not the
switch, not NCP or LANCP on
Here's where we stand on our cluster communications errors: nothing we
did worked. We tried different ports on the switch. We tried forcing
1Gbps. We tried forcing the port down to 10 Mbps. That actually seemed
to help slightly, in that we only lost communications every 63 seconds
or so,
Another data point. After more playing around and several reboots, I can
confirm that with tunneling using the host system's Ethernet device,
communications with other cluster members /only/ drops when DECnet is
started.
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On 7/18/2018 4:18 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
You mentioned that some of this is real hardware and some is simulated. It
might be helpful to post a map showing the setup, including interface models,
link speeds, and switch models.
I'll have to see about getting that. I think I mentioned that
On 7/18/2018 3:38 PM, Hunter Goatley wrote:
I know it's currently as set to autosense. I'll try forcing the speed
and duplex.
I was told:
The router is reporting that the port auto-sensed 1Gbit duplex, but
I just manually forced it to that to be sure.
No change in behavior
Hi, Mark.
Meanwhile, from what you’ve mentioned it seems you’ve got a simh
instance talking to real DEC hardware.
Yes, the switch isn't DEC, but most of the other nodes in the cluster
are real DEC hardware.
Using the 4.0 Current codebase, you might want to look at: HELP XQ
CONFIG SET
Thanks, Dave. I meant to try to double-check the settings. I don't have
physical access to the system, so I'll ask someone to double-check the card
and the switch.
I know it's currently as set to autosense. I'll try forcing the speed and
duplex.
Thanks!
Hunter
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My mistake. I'm not running V4.0, I'm running V3.10-0 RC1.
After posting, it dawned on me that I should have tried SIMH V3.9.0, but
it fails to boot:
(BOOT/R5:0 DUA0
2..
-DUA0
1..0..
HALT instruction, PC: 4C02 (HALT)
sim>
I'm not sure why. I'm using the
or have any suggestions?
Thanks!
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On 1/28/2018 3:43 PM, khandy21yo wrote:
There is a project on gitnub called BLISS-M. Is it comparable with any
version of bliss discussed here?
That's Matt Madison's attempt to create a BLISS that could be used on
Linux and other systems. It's been a while since he last updated it, so
I'm
On 1/28/2018 3:49 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
It's more or less a dead language, unless you are in a very specific
environment. So no, most likely it is not worth learning, if you are
thinking that you might work with it.
If you're writing code that's strictly for VMS and will never be used
and choosing BLISS for the Language.
http://vms.process.com/fileserv_search.html
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s-freeware/fileserv/bliss-intro.zip
You may also be interested in the original article by Wulf that
introduced BLISS. You can find a PDF and Postscript files that I
formatted here:
http://vms.process.com/ftp/vms-freeware/fileserv/bliss-intro.zip
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also an FAQ here:
http://www.process.com/support/multinet/faq/ssh.html
The DHCP client is documented here:
http://www.process.com/docs/multinet5_5/install_admin/chapter_16.htm
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On 1/26/2018 3:28 PM, Timothe Litt wrote:
Sounds right. The -16 and -36 versions stayed with the native backend
and didn't get much attention once GEM took off. At least, I don't
recall GEM support for them.
I believe that's correct.
Alpha pretty much repeated the VAX route (plus the
license for both VAX and Alpha (and Itanium), but it was far too late
for most people to have any interest in adopting it. I still do some
BLISS coding, but I'm one of the few that I know of still doing it.
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oint, but would happily
talk on any ASCII RS232 line. Perhaps your college got a good deal -
or a donation.
I'm not sure which it was. Probably both.
Still, GiGi was a neat toy, and would have seemed impressive against a
backdrop of VT100s...
It did!
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ut I can't comment on the program's quality so far. At least there seem
to be several localized versions.
Tera Term has been my emulator of choice for at least the past 17 years.
I much prefer it to PuTTY.
[1] <https://osdn.net/projects/ttssh2/>
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: OpenVMS Hobbyist Program
http://www.process.com/psc/resources/openvms-resource-center/hobbyist/
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