Linux on an 8-Bit Micro? (2012)

Re:Linux on an 8-Bit Micro? (2012) by michrassena on Saturday April 27, 2019 @01:15AM (#19763924)

I fully intend to do so. I have the VAX VMS ISO and hobbyist license around somewhere and have spent a little time fooling with it under emulation. I first used it nearly 30 years ago, and have been missing versioning filesystems ever since. For all of the strengths of Unix-like systems, notably their longevity and versatility, as I think I've written elsewhere on this forum, VMS just seems so much more fully engineered, designed and deliberate in contrast.

(It seems you had a great hack to get VMS connected. Was that used for file sharing only, or could you do more with it?)

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Re:Linux on an 8-Bit Micro? (2012) by neilv on Saturday April 27, 2019 @01:29AM (#19763963)

.iso is perfect -- TK50 drives are scary in how they operate, and I'd be scared to put a rare tape into one.

I gatewayed remote logins from arbitrary hosts, and I probably used a stock DECnet facility to transfer/share files between a VAX/VMS and Ultrix MIPS box, possibly direct to NFS volume mounted from a SPARCserver onto Ultrix. I think there was at least one NFS implementation (TGV?) for VMS at the time, but didn't have it.

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Re:Linux on an 8-Bit Micro? (2012) by linker3000 on Saturday April 27, 2019 @06:02AM (#19764785)

My apprenticeship life in the 1980s was full of TS11 and TK50 goodness - I looked after an 11/750 and a couple of MicroVAXes all running VMS.

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