[HECnet] Getting openvms going

[Bill Cunningham]

On 11/13/2019 6:02 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 11/13/19 5:55 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>>> Having said that, a copy/paste into your PUTTY window that’s running a
>>>> CREATE will work on OPA0:
>>>     That will only work if you either do it in very small chunks, pace it
>>> within the terminal program, or increase the buffer sizes.
>> Seriously, I have always just typed in the few licenses needed to get
>> the system to a point where I can transfer the rest over the network.
>> People, your keyboards are not scary devices... :-)
>    Yes, that was my first suggestion.  But we live in an extremely lazy
> society.
>
>> Back in the day, the license was on a piece of paper, and typing was the
>> only option.
>    Man I've done a whole bunch of those!  That was one thing that was
> hard to get used to in the 4.7->5.0 transition.
>
>             -Dave

The license was on paper. And Dave Cutler designed all this, before 
going to Microsoft? I have been dealing with linux and unix a bit. but I 
have noticed a Compiler and TCP/IP for VMS and a GUI. Well they are 
really cranking VMS up, anything better than windows. But, that's what 
people use.