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New emulator available
SecurityGo and see the emulator of AlphaServer ES40 on http://sourceforge.net/projects/es40/

From the SourceForge Project Page:

I've made a new cvs snapshot available on the download page.
20080318_1530 has the following changes from release 0.18:

- Fixed some IDE CD-ROM issues that were introduced with the
multi-threading patch. (17-mar-2008, Brian Wheeler)
- Restored SDL functionality. (16-mar-2008, Camiel
Vanderhoeven)
- Better exception handling, restored Serial port menu
functionality (14-mar-2008, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
- Ability to stop and restart threads, restored save/restore
state functionality. (13-mar-2008, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
- Use separate threads for devices rather than crowding
everything into one thread. Use Poco libraries for platform
independent threading. NOTE: This patch breaks some
functionality that we will need to regain in the future.
(05-mar-2008, Camiel Vanderhoeven)

Camiel.
facdaar on March 26 2008 06:45 · 0 Comments · 389 Reads · Print
OpenVMS Advanced Technical Boot Camp
NewsDear OpenVMS Technologist,

On behalf of the entire boot camp team, it is my pleasure to announce the next OpenVMS Advanced technical boot camp May 18-23, 2008 at the Radisson Hotel in Nashua, NH. This five day event is focused on the intermediate to advanced OpenVMS technologist. Your instructors will be expert members of the OpenVMS Community. Additionally, we will be providing some basic and master level classes. In addition to numerous technical talks, this year we will be providing hands on sessions around OpenVMS on Blades (hardware and system management), New Storage and Application Modernization. The cost of this 6 day event is $1495.00.

This year as in years previously we will be several complimentary pre boot camp seminars for our pre-registered bootcamp attendees.

Please note that the hotel known as the Sheraton Hotel in Nashua was sold and is now the Radisson Nashua. Lodging and Travel are not part of the course costs. For more information please see the rest of this web page.

The agenda will be available sometime in early March 2008

HP is committed to protecting your privacy. Learn more.

Please do not hesitate to send feedback with any questions.

Warm Regards,
Sue Skonetski
Program Manager

For more info, go to http://h71000.www7.hp.com/symposium/index.html
HobbyistOne on March 12 2008 03:38
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Updated Web Forums
NewsI've migrated all the web-based discussion forums from phpBB2 to the PHP-Fusion forums. Since most of the site is now using PHP-Fusion, it was going to be confusing to have two different login ID's to use the site.

All the forums and posts from the old phpBB system are there, and I've migrated everyones accounts from phpBB into the PHP-Fusion based site. Just log into the panel at the right, and you should be able to read and access the forums like you always have.

If there are any issues I haven't gotten fixed right, please let me know so I can get it addressed. Thanks!
HobbyistOne on March 10 2008 19:47
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Updated Web Site!
NewsWelcome to the updated OpenVMS Hobbyist Web Portal. The previous portal was done with a bunch of individual web pages, and was not really very easy to manage. The updated site is based on the PHP-Fusion Content Management System (CMS). This CMS is written in PHP and Apache, and uses MySQL for the database. Since these are easily available on OpenVMS, it was a good fit! This should provide for a more interactive site where Hobbyists such as yourself can participate in the content more.

Why did I choose PHP-Fusion as the CMS? What about Drupal, Joomla, or Wordpress? I needed a CMS that would be easy to manage, easy to migrate to, and worked pretty much out of the box. And for performance reasons, I wanted something that was relatively light-weight.

Drupal wanted some features of PHP that were not compiled into the CSWS_PHP kits. Joomla worked fine, but was a little too heavy-weight and the performance wasn't as good. Wordpress was fine, but is more geared for blogging. PHP-Fusion seemed to be the best fit.

I'm still adding links and such to the site, so stay tuned!
HobbyistOne on February 27 2008 18:34
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New OpenVMS Alpha Kits Available!
SoftwareThe newly remastered OpenVMS Alpha Hobbyist Kits are now here! These kits are based on OpenVMS Alpha V8.3 distribution. In addition to the base O/S, this release boasts more compilers and tools than previuos releases!

All the major compilers: C, C++, COBOL, BASIC, FORTRAN, and Pascal
More Tools: DECset, Compaq Secure Web Browser, unzip
And of course, the normal items: OpenVMS, DECnet, TCP/IP, Kerberos, DECWindows

Please your order now! Web servers are standing by!
HobbyistOne on February 21 2008 11:50
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My First OpenVMS was

V8.X - OpenVMS Gets Integrity

V7.X - Long Live VAX!

V6.X - Alpha Powered

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iamcamiel
May 14 2008
p.s. I've catched up since then; I'm now running 8.3 on my ES40 emulator.

iamcamiel
May 13 2008
I'm pretty new to VMS (2003). I started with an older version though. My first system was a MicroVAX II running VMS 5.5

HobbyistOne
May 12 2008
Should have the database items worked out. Downgraded from MySQl 5.1.22 back to the V4.1.14. V5.x has some neat features, but some of the table locking isn't quite ready yet... ;-(

imiller
May 08 2008
I'm a newbie having starting with MicroVMS V4.6 only 20 years ago :-)

PIEBALDconsult
May 08 2008
My Frist OpenVMS was Frist? I answered "V1.X - VAX-11/780", though I'm not sure it was V1.X on the VAX-11/780 on the college computer in 1986.

HobbyistOne
April 25 2008
Sorry about that. Had a couple of problems with MySQL getting a table locked up recently.

pfau
April 24 2008
anyone else having problems accessing this site? it's been unreachable quite frequently lately

simoleso
April 22 2008
Someone know why decus.it is still down? I would register but in Italy there's only thas DECUS...

Adrelian
April 21 2008
Are licences still being registered ? I have tried to register for Layered Products 3 times since last week.

imiller
April 14 2008
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