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posted by on Thursday April 20 2017, @10:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the breaking-news dept.

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Or 2018 if you're brave. For now, we have a boot screen!

Story's a bit dated but being as they're in no rush, I don't see any need for us to be either. So, you lot think we'll ever actually get to play with a VMS box on cheap hardware or is this going to be another DNF situation?

Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/13/openvms_moves_slowly_towards_x86/

Previous coverage:
OpenVMS Not Yet Dead.


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by mechanicjay on Thursday April 20 2017, @11:12PM

    but the pain of getting hobbyist PAKs for it has left me in the case most of my VMS investigations is mostly reading articles about it, and occasionally using one.

    Dude, it takes like 10 minutes to get hobbyist PAKs.

    1. Sign up for a FREE connect membership here: http://www.connect-community.org/ [connect-community.org]
    2. Then fillout the form here: https://www.hpe.com/h41268/live/index_e.aspx?qid=24548 [hpe.com].

    Once you get that, a nice gentleman from HP will even offer you an FTP download of install media.

    Note: the hobbyist situation for VMS on amd64 is still an unknown.

    --Jason

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    My VMS box beat up your Windows box.
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