9 Mar
2023
9 Mar
'23
11:27 a.m.
Well. It's more that VSI never had a hobbyist license for VAX. That was
all HP, and when HP stopped their VMS hobbyist program, VAX lost.
There are several options, but no perfect ones.
1. Find an existing VMS license for VAX and use that. This is probably
the only legal option available.
2. Use an old enough version of VMS that don't have license checking
built in.
3. Patch VMS to circumvent the license checking.
4. Generate your own license, assuming you have the tools for it.
I don't encourage doing things that might be illegal. I also do not know
exactly what the legal status of different options are, and I am not a
lawyer.
But that's basically the situation for VAX people with VMS now.
Johnny
On 2023-03-09 11:19, Wilm Boerhout wrote:
Peter,
The VAX Hobbyist license program has been discontinued by the new owners (VSI) since
somewhere last year.
The only practical (legal?) option is now to run VMS V4.6, that precedes the PAK license
program.
I am not going to tell you about the VMS Liberation Front, because thatwould be against
the law.
Wilm
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Whisker <peter(a)whisker.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, March 9, 2023 11:16 AM
To: hecnet(a)lists.dfupdate.se
Subject: [HECnet] Re: A milestone
Hi,
I hope you don't mind me asking a novice question. I was an RSX-11M guru rather than
a VAX one - I never did much on the new fangled things.
However, when looking to set up a simh VAX the other day, I see that there are licences
required - how would I as a hobbyis tget one? Do I stillhave to try to joing DECUS (if it
still exists) or what is the process for requesting a hobbyist licence to bring up a VAX
node on HECnet?
Thanks
Peter
On 09/03/2023 03:39, Wilm Boerhout wrote:
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt(a)softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
I am running VAXeln on a simh node. It is just
sitting there purring and being proud of itself.
Along with the rest, I am enjoying HECnet so much. Thank you Johnny and all you other
enthusiasts.
Groet,
Wilm
(Verstuurd vanaf mijn telefoon, dus wat korter dan gewoonlijk.) (Sent
from my phone, so a bit more compact than usual)
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Who has VAX Elan
running? What's that machine doing?
I think we should drop Cisco IOS and pyDECnet from the count -
those aren't really OSes for our purposes.
Bob
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