At this very moment, all 3 of my VMS servers are unreachable, but normally they are accessible.
I have two (pretty ancient) AlphaServer 800's, single 500mhz processor, 2 Gb memory, running recent VMS with hobbyist licenses. I also have an Itanium RX2600 dual-core box running OpenVMS 8.4 (similar to the one Craig uses, I suspect). All of these are available to perl developers. Send me an e-mail and I will set up an account for you. Please be aware that the backups are a bit cranky and the internet connection is a slow T1. Carl Friedberg www.comets.com carl.friedb...@comets.com<mailto:carl.friedb...@comets.com> http://about.me/carl.friedberg From: Craig A. Berry [mailto:craigbe...@mac.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 12:12 PM To: Nicholas Clark Cc: vmsperl@perl.org Subject: Re: HP hobbyist license On May 15, 2012, at 07:24 AM, Nicholas Clark <n...@ccl4.org> wrote: I would find it really useful to have ssh access to a VMS system for testing perl. Thanks for making the effort. It's unclear to me whether what I'm doing would be hobbyist, given that I'm being paid. It's a good question but I don't know the answer offhand. But, I can't find the terms of the Hobbyist License *anywhere*. Does anyone have or can point me to a copy that I can read? One path would be to sign up for your own licenses at: <http://www.openvms.org/pages.php?page=Hobbyist> and specifically ask them in the box on the form that says, "In what ways do you use your OpenVMS hobbyist license?" whether what you're doing is allowed. I believe you can still get an account on an HP server for purposes of open source porting. See <http://www.openvms.org/stories.php?story=10/02/09/2319162> In that case HP would be the license holder. Also, it might be something slightly less ancient than the old alpha the deathrow folks have. George Greer started down this path to set up a smoker and got tangled up at how different it is from anything he's used to, but he did get as far as a relatively clean build of 5.14.1.
