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Whoever owns VMS now: please bring back VAX (not x86, subject of this article) hobby license paks. Some of us want to keep our hardware running with the clock s
by dboreham 4y ago
Whoever owns VMS now: please bring back VAX (not x86, subject of this article) hobby license paks. Some of us want to keep our hardware running with the clock set to the correct date.
- xvilka 4y agoAlso would be nice to run it on SIMH[1]. [1] https://github.com/open-simh/simh/ https://github.com/open-simh/simh/
- JPLeRouzic 4y agogenuine question: Is Vax simulation broken on SIMH? https://github.com/open-simh/simh/tree/master/VAX https://github.com/open-simh/simh/tree/master/VAX
- rnd0 4y agoWhat makes you ask? If you're encountering problems maybe file an issue?
- octotoad 4y agoIIRC VSI never got the VAX stuff in the deal with HP. I don't think HP will ever bother to bring back the hobbyist program just for VAX, unfortunately. There are easy ways around this lack of official licenses. Ways that I can't/won't go in to here.
- dboreham 4y agoObviously a 1990s signature scheme can likely be brute forced today or has some known vulnerability. I remember back in the day discovering that the license key scheme for Sun's NFS for DOS had the property that re-ordering bytes from one valid key created a second also valid key.
- icedchai 4y agoIf you google for "VMS Liberation Front" you'll find your answer.
- chasil 4y agoThere is a disk image of VMS 1.0 for the VAX 11/780 that is still available. https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_VMS_V1.0_on_SIMH https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_VMS_V1.0_on_SIMH
- trasz4 4y agoAnd for some reason refuse to use pakgen.c as if it was illegal or sth