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FreeVMS (0.3.17 release continued), the only working one
6 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2020-04-08 · latest 2024-04-22
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> I think the OpenVMS's DCL interface has a libre implementation. I know about https://github.com/rroart/freevms/tree/master/dcl/src but my impression was FreeVMS is too incomplete to use in anger. > I've seen things like mpsh You mean…
comment by skissane · 2024-04-22 · in The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf] -
There were a few alternatives, such as various versions of freevms, but also VMS userland on Linux. https://github.com/rroart/freevms
comment by JPLeRouzic · 2024-03-26 · in Updates to the OpenVMS Community Program -
Actually someone did that: https://github.com/rroart/freevms
comment by mepian · 2023-07-26 · in How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporaneous x86? (2020) -
What about FreeVMS? https://github.com/rroart/freevms
comment by JPLeRouzic · 2023-04-18 · in OpenVMS 9.2 for x86: Auto boot, licenses, PAKs, networking and SSH -
Its a shame FreeVMS never took off: http://www.pvv.org/~roart/freevms.html https://github.com/rroart/freevms
comment by pabs3 · 2020-10-14 · in The Problem of Legacy IT Systems -
…called FreeVMS which aimed to do that. Sadly, it didn't get much further than booting. Edit: https://github.com/rroart/freevms . It's definitely not big and professional like OpenVMS :-)
comment by alxlaz · 2020-04-08 · in HPE sets end date for hobbyist licenses for OpenVMS