[HECnet] HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing

[Clem Cole]

Keith,

Thank you - I'll pass your comments on to Stan Smith, the other half of
that IP
/TCP implementation.  Something we started writing in the winter of
1979-80.  I.e. our code is 40 yrs old 😉

Clem

On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 10:26 AM Keith Halewood <Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org>
wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
>
> --
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