Re: [Wlug] Wlug Digest, Vol 79, Issue 9
I don't have any old DEC equipment anymore, but I started my so-called IT career on a PDP-11 out in gorgeous Gardner, MA back in 1986. It ran RSX for an engineering CAD/CAM shop and we also had a VAX 780 running VMS 3.5. Last version of VMS I've worked with was 7.1, right here in Wormtown. I love Linux but I have to say I also was in love with VMS. Rumor had it, back in '89, that there was a field somewhere off Route 12 in Leominster, where DEC had dumped loads and loads of equipment, including computers, printers, cables, you-name-it. One of my operators when I was a sys admin at DEC Marlborough at that time had his front yard filled with that stuff, and the weather allegedly had no effect on any of it. I would imagine by now that the field, if it ever existed, is now a condo development or a semi-abandoned strip mall. Cheers from South Woostuh! On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:00 PM, <wlug-request@mail.wlug.org> wrote:
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:28 PM, David Hardy <belovedbold357@gmail.com> wrote:
I think DEC had a big facility along route 70 in Lancaster (near route 2) that was sold to Mass. Youth Soccer. That's right near Leominster. -- Rich
"Richard" == Richard Klein <richspk@gmail.com> writes:
Richard> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:28 PM, David Hardy <belovedbold357@gmail.com> wrote:
Richard> I think DEC had a big facility along route 70 in Lancaster Richard> (near route 2) that was sold to Mass. Youth Soccer. That's Richard> right near Leominster. Umm... Rt 70 runs from Worcester out to Clinton and beyond. The facility you're thinking about is in Boylston, and it now the town hall, etc. Now I know this 'cause I live in Boylston. :]
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:38 PM, John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> wrote:
Heh. I live in Clinton. Route 70 does, in fact, run through Lancaster, where it's also called Lunenburg Rd. It's right by Norm Wagner Toyota: http://maps.google.com/maps?cid=0,0,5185522724830873118 (I elided the bits of the URL that I though were irrelevant. It still works for me, but may not for you.) I guess Lancaster would be part of "beyond". :) -- Rich
"Richard" == Richard Klein <richspk@gmail.com> writes:
Richard> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:38 PM, John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> wrote:
Richard> Heh. I live in Clinton. Route 70 does, in fact, run through Richard> Lancaster, where it's also called Lunenburg Rd. It's right Richard> by Norm Wagner Toyota: Richard> http://maps.google.com/maps?cid=0,0,5185522724830873118 (I Richard> elided the bits of the URL that I though were irrelevant. It Richard> still works for me, but may not for you.) Heh, you're right! I'm just too focused on my own little stretch of 70 I guess. I don't get up there at all very often. Richard> I guess Lancaster would be part of "beyond". :) Sorta like how when I grew up in NY, anything above the Tappan Zee bridge was "upstate" to me. :]
I too retain a fondness for VMS. Which is why, even though I had Debian running on my VaxStation 3100, I still went back to OpenVMS (despite the need to buy an annual software license). On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:28 PM, David Hardy <belovedbold357@gmail.com>wrote:
On 5/19/2010 2:02 PM, Adam Gomes wrote:
Based on energy inefficiency alone I just cannot justify firing up one of these machines to run it. I sure wish HP would stop with the Itanium-only strategy and come out with a version running on AMD-64 chips! I'd get a hobbiest license if they did that. -- Doug C. ----- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
Doug C. Says,
Yes, VMS rocked. Best OS ever, IMO.
Naa. AOS/VS wiped the floor with VMS. ;-) But really, those OSes were great at the time but I can't image ever wanting to return to them. Linux and any UNIX is just so much more efficient, functional and fun. -- Gary
Jorden> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Gary Hanley <gary@hanley.net> wrote:
Jorden> Plan 9 > * Jorden> Too bad it can hardly browse the web. Heh, I've got a pristine boxed copy of Plan9 sitting on my shelves, just the day I decide to fire up a VM and have it running and useable. Now that would be neat to do. John
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:37 PM, John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> wrote:
9vx provides a pre-packaged lightweight Plan 9 VM that possibly integrates better with the host system than an older, unpatched shrink-wrapped copy in a VM. Just FYI. Personally, I'd keep it in the box just for nostalgia. Maybe you could make a tag that reads: The OS That Should Have Won But Didn't. Oh well. Back to GNU and Firefox...
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