to write this entry made me speeches' ekspertuff the forum " who claimed and taught me that
with appropriate emulator on x86 can not run OpenVMS, HPUX-a and Aixa.
course from the beginning I guessed that it was crap in the end for example, what would it be based netbsd?
but I did not have enough knowledge to prove they are wrong, until recently:)
Coincidentally, on the one side, I found a link to the boards and OpenVMS ES40 emulator to him what started me playing with this system.
After many attempts, failed tests and pester auroraux colleague, I managed to find odpowedni emulator into an elevator and documentation from VMSa.
I found out that it was able to install and run the emulator:).
I will explain the installation process step by step for those who want to play a bit of this system and compare it with Windows NT.
description will be for Win7 to VMSa Alpha architecture, I have not tried the other systems.
What do we need?
- Plate with OpenVMS I installed version 8.3.
- Suitable Alpha AXP architecture emulator, I used FREEAXP, ES40 does not work properly.
- disk space, the installation with a minimum options, no support for programming is ~ 2.6 GB, so we have a lot more:)
- A large patient, the emulation is incredibly AXP procesożerna the C2D E6550 devoured more than 90% CPU usage,
so we can forget about doing it in the background :)
Before Installation:
First, configure the emulator - the 128 mb memory, select automaticaly start putty and set our card network in the dka0
każemy create a partition (recommended 8-11 gb), the iso image dka100 wyieramy vmsa . I run.
Running takes a while when you sign incentives Bios>>> prompt, type: boot
dka100
and calmly wait.
appears nine options to choose from.
an option 8) Execute DCL commands and Procedures - we have access to the console VMSa if anyone wants to play with it without installing it przoszę very much:)
We are interested in option 1 - that is, a clean installation again, select it and wait:)
Setup begins to ask us for installation options.
In Tables of type initialize, we must choose the partition that the installer has vdysku for us.
as hard to install select dka0. After he
selection label and fs, went ODS-2 because it is less problematic for beginners.
later we must enter the password for the SYSTEM, they must be submitted otherwise the installer will not let go us further.
Since then choose the options that determine the functionality of the system after installation.
course, I chose them because at least will not be wasting disk space on the things you have not test:)?
So select the options that we are interested in general they relate to compilers, clustering and networking services.
We also have a choice of sub-options. After all, the zoczyna installation which takes ~ 30 minutes.
Afterwards, we return to the CLI, or restart the system and run it from your boot command dka0.
start-up may take a few minutes after the log in as SYSTEM and enter our password.
display a list of commands using the HELP and the command by using the help command.
If I find more time may skubnę something about this system.
comprehensive FAQ about the system: http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/os83_index.html
Additional info:
http://www.openvmshobbyist.com
http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com /
http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/link.html
http://www.openvms.org/
BRIEF:
http://www.osnews.com/story/10
Free Maple OpenVMS operating under qemu.
http://www.freevms.net/
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