On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 16:37 +0100, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Guys,
I've set up an IRC server for our use on silverback.sampsa.com port
6655 (non-standard port, I know).
I'll be hanging out on channel #hecnet as often as I can.
Although I think that putting up an IRC channel for HECnet is a
fantastic idea, and I'm connecting after hitting "Send" - who knows, it
might lead to the development of a proper VMS-style IRC client - I'm
quite opposed to the "network per channel" thing: It strikes me a bit as
having a mail server for each address, or insisting on setting up a new
computer for every user account.
Can't we please do this on a recognized, stable network - Freenode
(irc.freenode.net) strikes me as being a very nice network for this kind
of thing, and it already has a healthy #vms. I'll be in #hecnet there
myself.
I don't have any active hosts at the moment either - it is still summer!
- but I still feel entitled to whine ;)
Regards,
-Tore :)
Does PHONE do multi-user?
It does two people (Well, two people is technically "multi-user" :-)
Seriously, though, PHONE is pretty simple compared to IRC. However,
remember that we are talking antique systems here - it's probably the
closest analog that exists.
Bob
Does PHONE do multi-user?
Sampsa
On 17 Aug 2008, at 18:58, Bob Armstrong wrote:
Well if you've got a better and more DEC oriented I'm open torunning
that too... :)
There's PHONE, which works on VMS and RSX, at least, maybe more.
Bob
Well if you've got a better and more DEC oriented I'm open torunning
that too... :)
There's PHONE, which works on VMS and RSX, at least, maybe more.
Bob
Well if you've got a better and more DEC oriented I'm open to running that too... :)
Sampsa
On 17 Aug 2008, at 17:49, Phil Mendelsohn wrote:
Sampsa Laine wrote:
Guys,
I've set up an IRC server for our use on silverback.sampsa.com port 6655 (non-standard port, I know).
I'll be hanging out on channel #hecnet as often as I can.
There's something about using IRC for DEC stuff that strikes me as inconsistent. (I'm being a real DEC/VMS bigot here...)
Better if there were a multi-user version of PHONE. :)
DECNotes isn't real time...
Alas - I'm not entitled to an opinion, since my systems off-line now anyway!
--
"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt."
--Sir William Cornelius Van Horne
Sampsa Laine wrote:
Guys,
I've set up an IRC server for our use on silverback.sampsa.com port 6655 (non-standard port, I know).
I'll be hanging out on channel #hecnet as often as I can.
There's something about using IRC for DEC stuff that strikes me as inconsistent. (I'm being a real DEC/VMS bigot here...)
Better if there were a multi-user version of PHONE. :)
DECNotes isn't real time...
Alas - I'm not entitled to an opinion, since my systems off-line now anyway!
--
"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt."
--Sir William Cornelius Van Horne
Guys,
I've set up an IRC server for our use on silverback.sampsa.com port 6655 (non-standard port, I know).
I'll be hanging out on channel #hecnet as often as I can.
Sampsa
Follow up: I "upgraded" to DECnet PhaseIV, everything is working swimmingly.
Sampsa
On 16 Aug 2008, at 01:36, Sampsa Laine wrote:
I have finally managed to get my machine to talk to HECnet, unfortunately I can only access remote machines by their numeric address, not by node name.
I am running DECnet-Plus on OpenVMS 8.3, with the name resolution set to local. Any idea how I can get this to resolve PhaseIV addresses?
Sampsa
I have finally managed to get my machine to talk to HECnet, unfortunately I can only access remote machines by their numeric address, not by node name.
I am running DECnet-Plus on OpenVMS 8.3, with the name resolution set to local. Any idea how I can get this to resolve PhaseIV addresses?
Sampsa
A friend of mine was giving away some AlphaServer DS20E (it s a long story :-). It s hardly even an antique, being less than ten years old, but on a whim I decided to take one.
I m glad I did; it s a really nice server. Works great, has four 9.1Gb 10K SCSI drives (sadly mine doesn t have the 6 slot SCSI chassis), and 4Gb of DRAM. Yes, 4Gb of RAM; that s a lot for a 2000 vintage machine. I m tempted load OpenVMS 8.3 and use it to replace LEGATO, if I can afford the approximately 300kWh/month electric bill.
Unfortunately the machines were the rack mount configuration and are for some reason missing their faceplates, and it s kind of ugly. Does anybody have an extra DS20 faceplate that they can spare? Even better would be a set of floor pedestal skins for the DS20.
Thanks,
Bob
