Brian Hechinger wrote:
I went from being one of the original HECnet members with Johnny, to not
having anything to do with it for years.
I'm back. :)
I just rescued a pair of VAX 4000/500 boxes which I plan on setting up as
a cluster once I get the second node online (right now only the one is
running, need to find some stuff to get the second one online) and I thought
that I should really get linked back into HECnet.
Just thought I'd say Hi and let you all know what's going on.
Howdy.
Peace... Sridhar
I went from being one of the original HECnet members with Johnny, to not
having anything to do with it for years.
I'm back. :)
I just rescued a pair of VAX 4000/500 boxes which I plan on setting up as
a cluster once I get the second node online (right now only the one is
running, need to find some stuff to get the second one online) and I thought
that I should really get linked back into HECnet.
Just thought I'd say Hi and let you all know what's going on.
-brian
--
"Coding in C is like sending a 3 year old to do groceries. You gotta
tell them exactly what you want or you'll end up with a cupboard full of
pop tarts and pancake mix." -- IRC User (http://www.bash.org/?841435)
Just wanted to share the photos.
I was at The Alternate Party with 20 VaxStations/Microvaxen.
Young people were more interested about playing Tetris but some
old-timers also had interest for the cluster.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=7441&l=39349&id=1456476365
Regards,
--Saku
At 9:04 PM +0100 10/22/08, Sampsa Laine wrote:
I have finally managed to get my rx2600 running, it's accesible on HECnet with the host name RHESUS (1.403).
It's a dual Itanium 900MHz, 8 GB of RAM, one 146 GB disk running OpenVMS 8.3-1H1. Let me know if you want an
account, esp. for stuff like porting software across to IA64.
Very nice! I'm quite envious, 8.3-1H1 is Itanium only, which means the Alpha doesn't have iSCSI support yet. I'd love to know if you can use iSCSI on a system running 8.3-1H1 to connect to a box running FreeNAS.
Zane
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| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
Oh yeah, my bad.
Sorry, the box wasnt running at the time so I never got around to downloading it. Well, C down, the rest to go :)
Sampsa
On 23 Oct 2008, at 00:39, gerry77 at mail.com wrote:
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:34:23 +0100, you wrote:
No, I still don't have any compilers even though I obviously have the
licenses to run them. :(
Didn't you receive my mail with the URL to the C compiler?
G.
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:34:23 +0100, you wrote:
No, I still don't have any compilers even though I obviously have the
licenses to run them. :(
Didn't you receive my mail with the URL to the C compiler?
G.
No, I still don't have any compilers even though I obviously have the licenses to run them. :(
Is there anyone here with a DSPP membership or something who could get me the distributions?
Sampsa
On 22 Oct 2008, at 22:28, gerry77 at mail.com wrote:
BTW, did you find other interesting software for OpenVMS on Itanium? ;-)
Cheers,
G.
Sampsa Laine wrote:
Gentlemen,
I have finally managed to get my rx2600 running, it's accesible on HECnet with the host name RHESUS (1.403).
It's a dual Itanium 900MHz, 8 GB of RAM, one 146 GB disk running OpenVMS 8.3-1H1. Let me know if you want an
account, esp. for stuff like porting software across to IA64.
Fun. So now I've played with a PDP-11 running RSX, talking to an Itanium box running VMS. Talk about a leap across computer generations and timelines.
Johnny
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:39:52 +0100, you wrote:
Yes, very many thanks for that. Didn't want to publicise your
contribution without your approval of course :)
I'm very happy your Itanium is running fine! :-) Speaking about the IA64 kit,
I think that discretion is a must: I've not told you how we knew about it, and
you should't say who told you about it, let's say some friend gave you a
helping hand. :-) For the very same reason I think it would not be very safe
to publish the URLs on-list or in other public places, but if someone asks
privately I think (s)he should be provided with the URLs, along with a
recommendation about the discretion issue and the importance of this "secret".
BTW, did you find other interesting software for OpenVMS on Itanium? ;-)
Cheers,
G.
Yes, very many thanks for that. Didn't want to publicise your contribution without your approval of course :)
Sampsa
On 22 Oct 2008, at 21:34, gerry77 at mail.com wrote:
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:27:03 +0100, you wrote:
Ah yes, that was quite the adventure, ended up getting an, erhm,
unofficial .BCK install image, restored it to a LD image on CHIMP and
served it over Infoserver, the install was fairly straightforward
after that :)
;-) :-P :->
G. (Your OpenVMS IA64 "provider")
