Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> writes:
Is there a collection of 'standard' games for VMS (VAX or AXP) =
downloadable from somewhere?
What I'm referring to is something like the 'bsdgames' package available =
on most Linux distros..
VMS, as well as the hardware it runs on, was a relatively expensive in its
day. VMS systems were NOT purchased for games play. There are games that
were produced and submitted to DECUS, but there's never been any definitive
packaging thereof.
Check the DECUSlib.COM site for games.
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On Oct 10, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
I have limited the number of systems I have due to using a small pool: female names starting with M.
I still think Mulva is a legitimate choice for you :)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mulva
Ian
Is there a collection of 'standard' games for VMS (VAX or AXP) downloadable from somewhere?
What I'm referring to is something like the 'bsdgames' package available on most Linux distros..
sampsa <sampsa at mac.com>
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On 10/10/2013 03:47 PM, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Hey, more power to you, man! It sounds good to me. And it's very
different from how such things typically work in this country.
Niche product, requires a crapload of expensive training (that I got free as I was working at the company who built the product) tons of new installations an each one requires a lot PS time to integrate it into the customer's infra.
So there's maybe 3-5 vacancies per freelancer looking for a gig :)
Nice. :-) Is this why you like moving to places where angels fear to
tread? ;)
-Dave
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New Kensington, PA
Hey, more power to you, man! It sounds good to me. And it's very
different from how such things typically work in this country.
Niche product, requires a crapload of expensive training (that I got free as I was working at the company who built the product) tons of new installations an each one requires a lot PS time to integrate it into the customer's infra.
So there's maybe 3-5 vacancies per freelancer looking for a gig :)
Sampsa
On 10/10/2013 03:37 PM, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Corporate/boring. But more specifically, nonproductive. It's all
about keeping the money machine grinding forward. Actually
delivering a finished product is the worst thing that happens in
that world, because they can no longer bill for it. The contract
administrator (typically military, sometimes civilian) comes to
inspect the "progress", gives a smile and a wink, drives away in a
new BMW, and goes back to his office to fill out the report that
"everything is going fine, but there's been a minor cost
overrun..."
I hate to say it but professional services for a very expensive
security product is how I make my money :)
It's wrong on so many levels but affords me a great life style..
Hey, more power to you, man! It sounds good to me. And it's very
different from how such things typically work in this country.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Corporate/boring. But more specifically, nonproductive. It's all
about keeping the money machine grinding forward. Actually delivering a
finished product is the worst thing that happens in that world, because
they can no longer bill for it. The contract administrator (typically
military, sometimes civilian) comes to inspect the "progress", gives a
smile and a wink, drives away in a new BMW, and goes back to his office
to fill out the report that "everything is going fine, but there's been
a minor cost overrun..."
I hate to say it but professional services for a very expensive security product is how I make my money :)
It's wrong on so many levels but affords me a great life style..
sampsa
On 10/10/2013 03:03 PM, Brian Hechinger wrote:
I've had limited success with IDE/CF adapters, but there's nothing that
says that shouldn't work. It may not work well, but it should, well, ok,
MIGHT work. :)
Interesting. CF *is* IDE, just a different connector.
That's what I understood as well. That being said, I have an IDE/CF
adapter here that would regularly KP an OpenBSD box I was trying to run
off of a CF card in it. Got a different one and no longer had that
problem.
It might be a simple problem to solve, but obviously there are people
who are unable to solve it correctly. :)
That sounds like an OpenBSD issue to me. The interfaces are indeed
identical (I've designed stuff to talk to them at the raw logic level),
the only differences are the connector and the requirement that CF
implement the 8-bit transfer mode. It's optional on IDE.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, Sampsa Laine wrote:
If you a classic Amiga (3.9?) running on HECNET I want to know how so I can add my Amiga 4000 too :)
Eventually I'll try to get my Amiga 4000 on there but I'll start with a Powerbook G4 running Morphos - it's basically AmigaOS 3.1. The UUCP setup should be pretty close to a real Amiga.
That'd be interesting.
Also: update MOIRA to moira...4.3BSD was picky about caps.
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