Ultrix for DECstations

[Adrian Graham]

On 10/11/05 19:15, "Allison" <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> wrote:

>> (The only load media on this big-iron VAX is a TZ887 tape library so I'm
>> going to install VMS onto the boot disk by plugging it into a VAX 3100-90
>> with a BA350 storage shelf then all I have to do is put that disk into the
>> 6660's HSJ50-powered storage array and boot it......try doing THAT on any
>> other OS :oD VMS is VMS is VMS.....)
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> I've done that for years using RD54s and then SCSI disks, easiest way to do
> a VMS install for 20 systems.  Do it once then clone the drive, doent matter
> what the system varient was so long as it can interface to the drive.
> 
> Beat the tar or hackup out of using TK50.

Yup, and it's good to watch people's faces when they don't believe that such
behaviour is possible. I also had some fun last week with someone who'd been
'educated' in the ways of Windows 'clusters' - it took him several minutes
to come to terms with a filesystem that was accessible by any machine in the
cluster *at the same time* and one that was set up in minutes. He wanted to
know why such a filesystem wasn't everywhere and I couldn't honestly answer
him other than saying 'cost'.

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