[HECnet] HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing

[Keith Halewood]

I looked back at CMUTEK TCP/IP and discovered the multithreaded NNTP server I wrote for ANU-NEWS under VAX/VMS... over 30 years ago. The DCL archive file is still there and still extracts. Despite it being written in C, the interface to CMU's TCP/IP is wonderfully $QIO-based. It still pleasantly surprises me how easy it is/was to fire off a whole load of $QIOs with an AST routine reference and parameter, or a mailbox and just wait around for things to happen. Someone subsequently modified it (and added better error handling from what I remember) to work with UCX.

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Timothy Stark
Sent: 08 March 2020 00:19
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: RE: [HECnet] HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing

Yeah. I was able find CMUIP066 and CMUIP063 on ALDUR::

Thanks for information. 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> On Behalf Of Dave McGuire
Sent: Saturday, March 7, 2020 1:22 PM
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing

On 3/7/20 1:16 PM, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
>> I see ALDUR:: but I don't see that distribution, could you point me 
>> to it?
> 
> CMUIP066 is at ALDUR::DISK$OLD_USERS:[DECUS.VMSLT98B.CMU.VMS-V5]

  Great.  Thanks!

> Looks like I dumped my install session at 
> https://supratim-sanyal.blogspot.com/2019/03/cmu-tcpip-vax-vms-4.7.htm
> l

  Yes I did find that.  Thank you for posting it.

> BTW is it a fair assumption Process Software's MULTINET hobbyist 
> licenses will also dry up?

  I don't see why they would..?

           -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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