[Simh] simh on RaspBerry Pi

Wilm Boerhout wboerhout at gmail.com
Mon Feb 15 09:12:55 EST 2016


Will Senn schreef op 15-2-2016 om 15:09:

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>> As soon as I get home again (may be in a few days), I can post the 
>> simh ini file(s), my /etc/rc.local which implements the tun/tap 
>> stuff, as well as VMS MODPARAMS.DAT. That is as far as I will go in 
>> documenting. Making it work and stumbling along was part of the fun. 
>> It is my way to teach myself Linux. VMS, I know of old.
>>
>> /Wilm
>
> Thanks. I look forward to seeing the .ini's and rc.local, etc. I come 
> at it the other way around. I know Linux/Mac OS X/FreeBSD quite well, 
> but know next to nothing about VMS (I know a bit about VAX because of 
> its relationship to PDP-11, which I've been studying pretty 
> relentlessly). I have a hobbyist license for OpenVMS, but I'm unclear 
> if that's the same OS you are referring to?
>
It is. One of the things that separates VMS newbies from us dinosaurs is 
that we treat "Open" in OpenVMS as a silent prefix :-)

It was invented by Digital marketing at the time Posix came into being. 
OpenVMS was one of the first OS's to achieve Posix compatibility. Or 
maybe that was also just a scam by Digital marketing...

/Wilm




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