Re: Pipelining and Dec Jupiter thoughts....
On Friday, May 7, 2021, 11:07 CDT, Zane Healy wrote: > These if I needed OpenVMS on a laptop, I'd simply run it via emulator or > virtualization > (not an option for Itanium). I gather that at least some > development on OpenVMS 9.2 > is being done on VM's running on the developers laptops. Well, the latest version shipping from Bolton is V9.0-H, which has the long-awaited support for VMware, and IIRC some non-zero number of compilers available. It's still pretty well set in the "bleeding-edge" field of software though. It's labelled as V90EAK, with the last three letters indicating "Early Adopters' Kit", and made available to a rather small number of VMS customers who are interested in making their own products run on X64-86 platforms (as well as work properly on Itanics running v9.x) I don't know whether VSI has any particular policy about making the field test kits available to hobbyists/end-users quite yet. Bear in mind that there's a LOT of VMS components which aren't really ready to use yet. If memory serves, the V9.1 kit will also be labelled as 'field test', but will be made available to a larger number of customers/test sites, and is expected to include working versions of the components currently 'in progress'. Regards,Dick
Re: Pipelining and Dec Jupiter thoughts....
> From: Paul Koning > Message-ID: <9d8bada7-b597-42e1-99c8-4cc751f83...@comcast.net> > Another part of the puzzle was figuring out how to feed 100 watts of power to > a chip, > and get rid of that amount of heat, neither of which were anywhere > close to what was > done at the time. I still have some of the tech reports that describe that > piece (and I >contributed a wild idea -- which unfortunately DEC didn't get > around to patenting >before the project was shut down). Back in the mid-90s, there was an outfit in Britain which made some laptops using Alpha processors. There was a rumor inside DECin the same time-frame about DEC engineers prototyping an Alpha-based laptop (which never made it to market). The rumor included the internal code-name... "BURNS". Dick
Re: Re: Got DSM-11 running, any manuals online?
ftp://ftp.intersystems.com/pub/msm/docs/msm43/users.pdf is another source for a manual. It's the version which Micronetics sold, of which I heard "Micronetics shamelessly copied DSM-11 practically line for line to the PC." So the manual is probably close enough to work. HTH,Dick
Re: Microvax 3100 VMS 7.3 password reset
> I picked up a microvax 3100 this past weekend from a office that was > shutting down. >> I was able to start the system up, it boots up to a login prompt for VMS > VAX 7.3. >> I do not have any login info for this machine, is there a procedure i can > follow to reset a password to an account? I beg to differ with HP's recommendation (in their doc set) for Devin'ssituation. HP's description is meant for customer sites to have a copyof usernames/passwords to which they can revert for nasty situationssuch as a corrupted SYSUAF.DAT. *If* this system has the 'alternate'file, it should have the same problem as the original, of unknownpasswords. What Devin needs is instructions to break into the system. I happen to know how to do that (used to work in OpenVMS Engineering).Is that something that should be discussed here? Thanks,Dick
