[FreeVMS] A few questions about FreeVMS

[Gregory John Casamento]

Rien,

Stopping here as your emails are obvious flame-bait.   FreeVMS is working and in development.  Like it or not. :)

GJC
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Gregory Casamento

----- Original Message ----
From: Rien Timmer <Rien.Timmer at wxs.nl>
To: Gregory John Casamento <greg_casamento at yahoo.com>
Cc: FreeVMS mailing list <freevms at rayleigh.systella.fr>
Sent: Saturday, August 4, 2007 7:35:13 PM
Subject: Re: [FreeVMS] A few questions about FreeVMS

Of course it's possible, but in my humble opinion 'open and free to 
modify' contradicts being a clone of VMS.
You don't have this Freedom, because you want to implement VMS. (and how 
can you improve on perfection?) :-)
Linus didn't have Freedom either, because he wanted to clone Unix. Linux 
(which I use on three of my PCs) is just another Unix clone...

Rien.

Gregory John Casamento wrote:
> Well, Rien, I have one word for you: Linux.
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> So, yes, I do believe that it's possible.
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> By "Free" I don't mean cost.  I suppose I should have been clearer for people in the old school crowd.  No... by Free I mean open and free to modify as in Freedom.
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> GJC
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> Gregory Casamento
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Rien Timmer <Rien.Timmer at wxs.nl>
> To: FreeVMS mailing list <freevms at rayleigh.systella.fr>
> Sent: Saturday, August 4, 2007 4:17:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [FreeVMS] A few questions about FreeVMS
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> Well, Gregory, Bruce *does* have a point here.
> For the mere cost of joining Encompass (or the equivalent organisation 
> in your country) you can have the hobbyist license and run *real* VMS on 
> your PC for no more money than that.
> You can't *really* believe that a small group of affectionados can 
> reproduce the work of hundreds of engineers of over 30 years to create 
> PC-VMS as an equivalent implementation of the real thing...
> Believe me, I'm a real VMS bigot, I've worked for Digital for 30 years, 
> of which 25 years as a VMS engineer, but there is no way you're going to 
> implement this wonderful OS on a PC without considerable effort.
>
> Rien Timmer
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> "The mere fact that you're paranoid doesn't mean that they're not out to 
> get you..."
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> Gregory John Casamento wrote:
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>> Bruce,
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>> Your posting seems like flame-bait.
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>> If that were the point, then many people would have done it already.   The point is to create a source-level compatible and, above all, FREE version of VMS for PCs.
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>> GJC
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>> Gregory Casamento
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>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Bruce Allen <claudevms at comcast.net>
>> To: FreeVMS mailing list <freevms at rayleigh.systella.fr>
>> Sent: Saturday, August 4, 2007 12:42:58 PM
>> Subject: Re: [FreeVMS] A few questions about FreeVMS
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>> Hi,
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>> Get a hobbist license for VMS from encompass.
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>> Get the SIMH and/or the Free Alpha emulator and run the real thing on your PC.
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>> --
>> Bruce Allen
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>> Liberalism is a mental disorder...
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