Sorry for the condensed digest-reply. tclug-list-request at mn-linux.org, circa Wed, 14-Aug-2002 at 04:29PM: > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 14:05:47 -0500 (CDT) > From: <jeffr at odeon.net> > To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Re: Thread changed: Was "iCal servers [WAS] Help! The > boss wantsanexchangeserver!!!" > Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > > On 9 Aug 2002, Scott Dier wrote: > > [snip] > > > VMS tho, yikes. I'm not old enough to have worked with one of those. :) > > Hey now, I last touch a VAX/VMS system in 1995. It's not that long ago... > > Last I heard (early 1997?), 3M still had a couple. Also, given their > popularity with colleges I wouldn't be surprised if they were still fairly > common in academic circles. They still exist in academic cirles, but are becoming less common. Bemidji State had one, and the Physics Dept. at the U still may have one. > Message: 5 > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Re: Thread changed: Was "iCal servers [WAS] Help! The boss wantsanexchangeserver!!!" > From: David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> > Date: 10 Aug 2002 11:42:02 -0500 > Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org <snip repeat> > A guy I know online is just finishing reviewing the galleys for his > book on running web services on VMS. So I guess not only are they > still out there, but a publisher thinks people are still doing some > *new* things on them. VMS is also being ported to the Itanic. (Boy, is that like putting lipstick on a pig!) It is one of DEC\CED\Compaq\qapmoC\HP's most profitable divisions. Miracles of stealth marketing. > And another friend just bought several Vaxstation 3100's, I believe it > was, at an auction, but he's a known junk collector :-) I have 15 to 20 and a few DECstation (MIPS/unix boxen) in the basement here. Been salvaging them. Here's the kicker -- and the Linux related part of this post: Linux will finally boot on the VAX (a little over a year now). See http://linux-vax.sourceforge.net/ Then if you want to try playing with Linux (or NetBSD) on a *real* computer ;), let me know. As much as I love them all, I won't be able to keep the whole litter forever. (What better hardcore Linux thing than to port to a new arch?) Cheers, Phil -- www.rephil.org / University of Minnesota "To misattribute a quote is unforgivable" -- Anonymous