We just turned off our last VAX this month. Was replaced with none other than a Linux VM.
(We still have a few left, but none left at my plant).
On Oct 2, 2013, at 15:34, Tony Blews <tonyblews at gmail.com> wrote:
Fantastic. I remember reading that a long long time ago, just when we were phasing the VMS machines and terminals out in favour of Ultrix DECstations and VAXstations.
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
This book is hilarious, and can be copied from CHIMPY::UGH.PDF over HECnet.
sampsa
On 4 Oct 2013, at 02:42, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
On 2013-10-04 01:57, Steve Davidson wrote:
decnet.org has been down for a while. I have not had a chance to put it
back together, and it will be some time before I can commit to that.
You know, you could host it on MIM:: :-)
Johnny
Yeah, why leave all that spare capacity idling?
There's a REASON why the might RSX-11 HTTP server exists, no?
On 2013-10-04 01:57, Steve Davidson wrote:
decnet.org has been down for a while. I have not had a chance to put it
back together, and it will be some time before I can commit to that.
You know, you could host it on MIM:: :-)
Johnny
-Steve
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*From:* owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE]
*On Behalf Of *Tony Blews
*Sent:* Thursday, October 03, 2013 3:32 AM
*To:* hecnet at update.uu.se
*Subject:* [HECnet] hosts within recondite-computers.co.uk domain
Hi.
I've got the much underused domain recondite-computers.co.uk
<http://recondite-computers.co.uk>, which I thought I might as well
offer up to anyone who wants a host name listed under it.
Currently only www.recondite-computers.co.uk
<http://www.recondite-computers.co.uk> and
tardis.recondite-computers.co.uk
<http://tardis.recondite-computers.co.uk> are being used (the same
virtual machine).
All the mail for the domain currently bounces via @tardis.decnet.org
<http://tardis.decnet.org> (as i never could get SMTP working on
tardis), but i can add MX records if required.
As I can't think of anything to do with it (it was originally for a
Star Cops wiki that never happened), I thought I'd offer it up to
you lot.
Tony.
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|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
Hello!
Take your time Steve. Tony can you document someplace how you
assembled your host that's running on your domain name?
And what your site needs Tony is the Doctor, but he's busy over here.
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"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 3:32 AM, Tony Blews <tonyblews at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi.
I've got the much underused domain recondite-computers.co.uk, which I
thought I might as well offer up to anyone who wants a host name listed
under it.
Currently only www.recondite-computers.co.uk and
tardis.recondite-computers.co.uk are being used (the same virtual machine).
All the mail for the domain currently bounces via @tardis.decnet.org (as i
never could get SMTP working on tardis), but i can add MX records if
required.
As I can't think of anything to do with it (it was originally for a Star
Cops wiki that never happened), I thought I'd offer it up to you lot.
Tony.
decnet.org has been down for a while. I have not had a chance to put it back together, and it will be some time before I can commit to that.
-Steve
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Tony Blews
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 3:32 AM
To: hecnet at update.uu.se
Subject: [HECnet] hosts within recondite-computers.co.uk domain
Hi.
I've got the much underused domain recondite-computers.co.uk, which I thought I might as well offer up to anyone who wants a host name listed under it.
Currently only www.recondite-computers.co.uk and tardis.recondite-computers.co.uk are being used (the same virtual machine).
All the mail for the domain currently bounces via @tardis.decnet.org (as i never could get SMTP working on tardis), but i can add MX records if required.
As I can't think of anything to do with it (it was originally for a Star Cops wiki that never happened), I thought I'd offer it up to you lot.
Tony.
On Thu, 3 Oct 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 10/03/2013 03:02 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Thanks! If I shove the VT420 here I run out of room for the IP phone
without a handset. ;)
I'll find that damn handset one of these days.
No worries. I'm amused by the IP phone with lack of a handset. ;)
I'm still not quite sure whether I want the VT420 on my desk or downstairs at THAT desk.
-Dave
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
On Thu, 3 Oct 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 10/03/2013 11:01 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Lighter???
FWIW, you'd be much better off running the latest and greatest on your
VAX
hardware to take advantage of the performance features contained
within it.
The VAX processors, even in the latter generation VAX systems, are not
very
fast by today's standards. If you believe that every little bit
helps, then
you'd be running V7.3 to get every little bit of help you can get from
VMS.
I remember when VMS V5 came out. It was a total dog. I think DEC started
to work on improving performance in V6, but I would not be surprised to
learn that V7 is much better for performance than V6...
Same here.
V5 was a mess. It was usable on my 3600s, but the hit was plainly
noticable. Where it really hurt was on my 11/750. (well not "my" of
course) Under V4.7 we regularly had a dozen scientists working on the
11/750, while under V5 they started becoming frustrated and whiny around
7 or 8 users. It was painful.
I've noticed V5 being a mess even in SIMH! V4.7 had much better peformance. ;)
-Dave
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
On 10/03/2013 03:05 PM, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
On 10/03/2013 02:54 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
The terminals themselves were just largish monitors and keyboard with
an LSI11 system built in (an 11/03 or 11/2 - wasn't an 11/23, they were
too new).
Yup. That's why I'm drooling. I like that idea a lot.
The tricky part for writing your own code would be to reverse engineer the display engine. It was some sort of display list processor, same general idea as a GT-40 but text only.
That sounds like fun too!!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
