On 03/06/2013 07:29 AM, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
I've mentioned this to one or two folks here privately, but now that
it has come up...My mother is a journalist with Associated Press, and
she recently took a new assignment in a different city. Their office
has a VAX-4000 running VMS, handling some sort of database. They love
it, and they have no plans to migrate away from it.
It would be appreciated if a few interesting aspects concerning
the system were shared so we could understand how such a
mature system manages to compete.
I suspect it's not trying to "compete", at least not any more than,
say, the desks (not the desktops, but the DESKS) in the offices, etc.
It's an appliance; it sits there and does its job. There's no valid
reason to change it.
There's an odd consumerist attitude that goes something like "oh, the
manufacturer has introduced a new model, this one must somehow suck now,
I'd better replace it!"...That attitude is common in the worlds of
computers and cars, but not much else. If Great Neck (a common-in-USA
manufacturer of cheap-but-usable hand tools) introduces a new model of
hammer, I'm not going to throw my old one (probably twenty years old)
and rush out to buy the new one. That would be stupid...and it's just
as stupid with computers and cars.
I'm pretty sure I'm preaching to the choir here...at least I really
hope I am. ;)
(a) When was the system first installed?
I have no idea. She says she thinks it was a 4000-500, which would
put it in the mid-1990s.
(b) Approximately how long is the up-time between re-boots?
Again I have no idea. (this is my mother's place of employment, 1200mi
from here, not mine) Let's put it this way, though...it's likely that
this machine is running VMS, and it's not at all unusual for VMS systems
to have uptimes in the 5+ year range. If it didn't get those sorts of
uptimes, it probably would've annoyed someone and gotten replaced by now.
(c) Do they have any virus problems?
(d) Have they ever been hacked into?
ROFL!!! I haven't had a laugh this good on a long time. ;)
Other information such as the physical details would also be
interesting along with the number of users. Anything else
your mother felt willing to share would provide the list
members with good hard information.
She's pretty busy in her new assignment, but I'm sure she can do some
digging. I'd love to find out more myself.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
{...snip...}
Good question. I just let it use the default font, whatever that is.
Also, I just looked and noticed that Ctrl-Right Mouse shows an option
for enabling double sized characters. Do you have that, and is it enabled?
CTRL-MB3 ;) shows that they are selected. Same here too with default font.
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Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.
>Dave McGuire wrote:
I've mentioned this to one or two folks here privately, but now that
it has come up...My mother is a journalist with Associated Press, and
she recently took a new assignment in a different city. Their office
has a VAX-4000 running VMS, handling some sort of database. They love
it, and they have no plans to migrate away from it.
It would be appreciated if a few interesting aspects concerning
the system were shared so we could understand how such a
mature system manages to compete.
(a) When was the system first installed?
(b) Approximately how long is the up-time between re-boots?
(c) Do they have any virus problems?
(d) Have they ever been hacked into?
Other information such as the physical details would also be
interesting along with the number of users. Anything else
your mother felt willing to share would provide the list
members with good hard information.
Jerome Fine
With the menu stuff, you have to enable the SMTP service first and then it need to be started separately. You can do that using the startup command procedure (script):
$ @sys$startup:tcpip$smtp_startup.com
In case you have enabled SMTP (and other TCPIP services) it will start automatically next time you start TCPIP.
Kari
On 6.3.2013 6:49, Tony Blews wrote:
Well I thought the setup stuff would do that for me, so...
If you mean in the long winded menu options, yes. If you mean fettling
about with the start up scripts, no.
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 4:45 AM, Kari Uusim ki <uusimaki at exdecfinland.org
<mailto:uusimaki at exdecfinland.org>> wrote:
On 6.3.2013 5:50, Tony Blews wrote:
Hi,
I've asked this one before....
If I try to send mail out by SMTP% I get a message sayin that
the queue
is not started.
Aside from "start the queue", does anyone have any useful advice?
VMS 7.3 btw
Tony
Just checking, have you started the SMTP service in TCPIP?
Kari
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 03/05/2013 07:44 PM, Sampsa Laine wrote:
It gets screwier. The New York State College of Optometry again in
Manhattan is still using an entire DEC based solution for their
work. I certainly hope they hired the right hobbyist to maintain
their gear.......
I think my alma mater (Royal Holloway, Uni. of London) still uses a
couple of AlphaServers for their student registration at the
beginning of each year and some more VMS boxes for print servers for
the on-campus labs.
I actually managed to borrow some VMS install media from the admin
guys, they were more than happy to help a hobbyist out :)
I've mentioned this to one or two folks here privately, but now that
it has come up...My mother is a journalist with Associated Press, and
she recently took a new assignment in a different city. Their office
has a VAX-4000 running VMS, handling some sort of database. They love
it, and they have no plans to migrate away from it.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Hello!
No you haven't. But good for them.
Dave stop studying them. **A big snowball collides with your windows.**
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"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
Well I thought the setup stuff would do that for me, so...
If you mean in the long winded menu options, yes. If you mean fettling about with the start up scripts, no.
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 4:45 AM, Kari Uusim ki <uusimaki at exdecfinland.org> wrote:
On 6.3.2013 5:50, Tony Blews wrote:
Hi,
I've asked this one before....
If I try to send mail out by SMTP% I get a message sayin that the queue
is not started.
Aside from "start the queue", does anyone have any useful advice?
VMS 7.3 btw
Tony
Just checking, have you started the SMTP service in TCPIP?
Kari
On 6.3.2013 5:50, Tony Blews wrote:
Hi,
I've asked this one before....
If I try to send mail out by SMTP% I get a message sayin that the queue
is not started.
Aside from "start the queue", does anyone have any useful advice?
VMS 7.3 btw
Tony
Just checking, have you started the SMTP service in TCPIP?
Kari
On 03/05/2013 07:44 PM, Sampsa Laine wrote:
It gets screwier. The New York State College of Optometry again in
Manhattan is still using an entire DEC based solution for their
work. I certainly hope they hired the right hobbyist to maintain
their gear.......
I think my alma mater (Royal Holloway, Uni. of London) still uses a
couple of AlphaServers for their student registration at the
beginning of each year and some more VMS boxes for print servers for
the on-campus labs.
I actually managed to borrow some VMS install media from the admin
guys, they were more than happy to help a hobbyist out :)
I've mentioned this to one or two folks here privately, but now that
it has come up...My mother is a journalist with Associated Press, and
she recently took a new assignment in a different city. Their office
has a VAX-4000 running VMS, handling some sort of database. They love
it, and they have no plans to migrate away from it.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Hi,
I've asked this one before....
If I try to send mail out by SMTP% I get a message sayin that the queue is not started.
Aside from "start the queue", does anyone have any useful advice?
VMS 7.3 btw
Tony
On 2013-03-06 03:15, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote:
Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
On 2013-03-05 22:19, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote:
Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> writes:
try xterm.vt100.decTerminalID: 220
Which was my memory, I'd check to the sources for sure.
Also, don't forget to restart X. The .Xresource stuff was always hokey
and if things are not perfect, bad things happen. I've spent way more time
than I want to think dealing with Xresource crap over the years (and
b*tching at authors).
Clem
Doesn't make a bit of difference. Still doesn't give me DECDWL or DECDHL,
and the debugger issue still persists.
So, DECDWL and DECHDL are noted in the xterm documentation that it
depends on your fonts. So unless you have an old version, or bad fonts,
it should work. Does it work if you have it set to vt100?
Nope.
What font are you using?
Good question. I just let it use the default font, whatever that is. Also, I just looked and noticed that Ctrl-Right Mouse shows an option for enabling double sized characters. Do you have that, and is it enabled?
Johnny
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