On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 14:15:39 +0100, Mike Tomlinson
wrote:

En el artículo , Carl Kaufmann
escribió:

You mean VMS.

Did I? Ooops, yes, probably. It was late o'clock in the morning, it
was hot and I was sloppy.
Sorry.
And thank you.

I wouldn't mind using it again. Unfortunately you can't
even get it from HP anymore, afaik.

Buy a cheap, old "supercomputer". There's bound to be a few running
around.
Then spend Apollo-projecty budgets trying to port the OS from that
onto a modern box when there is exactly zero connection in common, not
even floppies.
It could be fun.


wrong.

http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/openvms/p.../download.html

Making it easy is *cheating*.


and it's being ported to Intel:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/1...owly_towards_x
86/

And that is *seriously* cheating.
Interlocking incompatibles is supposed to involve heads down in the
crawl-spaces under the raised flooring, standing on ladders hacking
the wiring while forced air does rude stuff with skirts and languages
that are expressive, short and mainly obsolete.
Lost tools and loud bangs as the data centre goes dark are just added
excitements.

Thank you for the linkys, and the memories. The comments on ElReg's
article are well worth a read if your computer experience started with
Mr Babbage's Engines or earlier.

Is it strange and sad that I understand the comments?
Mand.