[9fans] vms

[9fans] vms

[Jeff Sickel]

No, I'm not suggesting VAX/VMS on this channel::

	Though I really enjoyed working on VAX Forth-sim/VMS so way-
	back that the wayback machine at web.archive.org can't find it.
	If brucee could track down the creator in Australia I'd be
	much obliged.  He worked for DEC of course, I might have some
	paper trail to dig up if that would help.  But be warned,
	it's BITNET email addresses and some physical locations that
	most likely don't exist anymore. I'm fairly certain that my old
	tape backups are no longer viable.

Anyway... I was just trying reconstruct a couple of my semi-defunct
VMware images when I sadly ran across "Glenda'OS Light".  No, it's not
a nice image of Plan 9, but yet another distro that makes the phrase
"death before disco" more than apt.  So what I'm thinking is: we've
got all these various constructions of Plan 9 and Inferno out there,
including Ron's nice *inux images, but there's not a single searchable
site that provides a quick reference release that would give us inroads
to all the /other/ operating systems available these days.  Is the plan9
wiki page on vm installation the best place to approach this?  Or should
we encourage something that puts Plan 9 and Inferno images out into the
general audience on all the different sites so that there's something
that can always be updated?

-jas

Re: [9fans] vms

[Bruce Ellis]

The digital group was in Adelaide. Shand worked for them and Mudge was
the honcho. Does that help? I'm still in contact with Shand - he
visited last month.

I'll give it a try.

brucee

On 1/8/10, Jeff Sickel <jas@corpus-callosum.com> wrote:
> No, I'm not suggesting VAX/VMS on this channel::
>
>        Though I really enjoyed working on VAX Forth-sim/VMS so way-
>        back that the wayback machine at web.archive.org can't find it.
>        If brucee could track down the creator in Australia I'd be
>        much obliged.  He worked for DEC of course, I might have some
>        paper trail to dig up if that would help.  But be warned,
>        it's BITNET email addresses and some physical locations that
>        most likely don't exist anymore. I'm fairly certain that my old
>        tape backups are no longer viable.
>
> Anyway... I was just trying reconstruct a couple of my semi-defunct
> VMware images when I sadly ran across "Glenda'OS Light".  No, it's not
> a nice image of Plan 9, but yet another distro that makes the phrase
> "death before disco" more than apt.  So what I'm thinking is: we've
> got all these various constructions of Plan 9 and Inferno out there,
> including Ron's nice *inux images, but there's not a single searchable
> site that provides a quick reference release that would give us inroads
> to all the /other/ operating systems available these days.  Is the plan9
> wiki page on vm installation the best place to approach this?  Or should
> we encourage something that puts Plan 9 and Inferno images out into the
> general audience on all the different sites so that there's something
> that can always be updated?
>
> -jas
>
>
>

Re: [9fans] vms

[Ethan Grammatikidis]

On 8 Jan 2010, at 7:12 am, Jeff Sickel wrote:

> there's not a single searchable
> site that provides a quick reference release that would give us
> inroads
> to all the /other/ operating systems available these days.

Not sure if I understood what you mean but if I did, you want this:
http://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page
Particularly this page:
http://wiki.osdev.org/Projects

Also this:
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/

--
Ethan Grammatikidis

Re: [9fans] vms

[Patrick Kelly]

On Jan 25, 2010, at 12:28 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis
<eekee57@fastmail.fm> wrote:

>
> On 8 Jan 2010, at 7:12 am, Jeff Sickel wrote:
>
>> there's not a single searchable
>> site that provides a quick reference release that would give us
>> inroads
>> to all the /other/ operating systems available these days.
>
> Not sure if I understood what you mean but if I did, you want this:
> http://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page
> Particularly this page:
> http://wiki.osdev.org/Projects

Forums would be worth searching too, but as to a nice organized list,
good luck finding someone to maintain that.
>
> Also this:
> http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/
>
> --
> Ethan Grammatikidis
>
>