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State of the OpenVMS Port to x86_64 [pdf]

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Re: State of the OpenVMS Port to x86_64 [pdf]

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Could you please send me the link where it says that I can get the hobbyist license. I want to give it a try.

I got licenses for my MicroVAXen some years ago. I haven't powered either of them on in a long time though...

FYI, hobbyist licenses expire after a year. You'll have to get new ones. Still free.

Re: State of the OpenVMS Port to x86_64 [pdf]

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My ES40 (4 x 667MHz 21264s) consumes 16A @ 110V. Most 110V US circuits are 10A. I blew at least three fuses between that and the RX5670 (4 x Itanium), which consumed a similar amount of power @ 110V.

Household circuits are generally 15A or 20A AFAIK. Never seen one as low as 10.

Hmmm. Maybe it was 15A. A 16A ES40 plus other stuff plugged in to the same circuit would have happily blown 15A under load, I guess.

Re: State of the OpenVMS Port to x86_64 [pdf]

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You would have liked Snakebite. ( http://web.archive.org/web/20121031190851/http://www.snakebi... )

AFAIK Theo de Raadt still has a bunch of racks of vintage hardware working as an OpenBSD build cluster in his basement (old photo circa 2009: http://www.openbsd.org/images/rack2009.jpg ). VMS-related, OpenBSD discontinued the VAX port in the 6.0 release this year. Never touched a VAX but from what I read the OpenBSD 5.8 VAX port is a lot more recent and better maintained than the NetBSD port.

We had very similar setups :-)

Re: State of the OpenVMS Port to x86_64 [pdf]

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I have a bad habit where instead of doing something relevant I play with old stuff I read about but didn't have access to as a kid. VMS always interested me since I first read about it in the jargon file. I recently found an alphaserver on craigslist and I just requested an openvms hobbyist license so I could play with it. An octane running irix is another expression of this problem.

Then you will like this YouTube channel https://m.youtube.com/user/jpkiwigeek?

Re: State of the OpenVMS Port to x86_64 [pdf]

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Resistance heating is pretty poor compared to heat pumps.

That's the joke that I was trying to make.

I think I remember reading or overhearing that Intel's chips somewhere in the Pentium 4 era were more efficient at converting electricity to heat than a typical hotplate. (Ratio-wise, at least.)

Re: State of the OpenVMS Port to x86_64 [pdf]

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Don't forget nuclear plants running PDP-11/VMS until 2050. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/19/nuke_plants_to_keep_...

VMS never ran on the PDP-11. That article is talking about 2 different things (running PDP-11s and HPs stance on VMS).

Hard to find a comment by you not in oblivion but I'm trolling for nobody :

Former NSA staffer and famous whistleblower, William Binney, says the DNC hack was not done by Russia but by US Intelligence.

http://investmentwatchblog.com/nsa-whistleblower-says-dnc-ha...

Re: State of the OpenVMS Port to x86_64 [pdf]

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VMS never ran on the PDP-11. That article is talking about 2 different things (running PDP-11s and HPs stance on VMS).

Hard to find a comment by you not in oblivion but I'm trolling for nobody : Former NSA staffer and famous whistleblower, William Binney, says the DNC hack was not done by Russia but by US Intelligence. http://investmentwatchblog.com/nsa-whistleblower-says-dnc-ha...

A troll is a douche no matter if he's piggybacking on a banned user or has the stones to put his post above board. Which you don't.

Re: State of the OpenVMS Port to x86_64 [pdf]

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Don't forget nuclear plants running PDP-11/VMS until 2050. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/19/nuke_plants_to_keep_...

VMS never ran on the PDP-11. That article is talking about 2 different things (running PDP-11s and HPs stance on VMS).

what ?

make youself clear

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