#vax — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #vax, aggregated by home.social.
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: Terminal Server | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: Terminal Server | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: Back to the RTmFM (at last!) | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: Back to the RTmFM (at last!) | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #DEC #VAX #VAXstation #OpenVMS #VMS_Mosaic
Catch of the Day: A Dinosaur on the Web – OpenVMS on a VAXstation! 🦖
Hey Retro Fans!
When we think of retro computing, most of us picture a beige tower PC, a C64, or an Amiga. But yesterday, our bouncer welcomed a true heavyweight from the depths of professional IT history:
VMS_Mosaic 4.0 on OpenVMS V7.3 (VAXstation 4000-VLC)!
Let that user agent sink in for a moment. DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) was once a giant of the computer industry. Their VAX architecture and the accompanying OpenVMS operating system are absolute legends, famous for a level of stability that modern systems can often only dream of.
The VAXstation 4000-VLC ("Very Low Cost") hit the market in the very early 90s—a compact UNIX/VMS machine for professional use. The fact that someone in 2026 fires up this machine, launches the graphical Motif interface, and browses FrogFind using the native VMS_Mosaic browser is absolutely mind-blowing. It proves once again: With the right bridge (and FrogFind!), no architecture is too old for the internet.
A reverent toast to indestructible DEC hardware!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: Preparing the PDP-11 for the garage | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: Preparing the PDP-11 for the garage | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: BBC Basic on the PDP-11 | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: BBC Basic on the PDP-11 | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: Two laptops to fix up | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: Two laptops to fix up | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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Here's a story of a lost #joke One of the funniest pieces of spontaneous repartee ever devised and uttered by yours truly. Read on and share my sorrow.
#DEC #DigitalEquipmentCorporation #VAX #VMS #Pun #PlayOnWords
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Here's a story of a lost #joke One of the funniest pieces of spontaneous repartee ever devised and uttered by yours truly. Read on and share my sorrow.
#DEC #DigitalEquipmentCorporation #VAX #VMS #Pun #PlayOnWords
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Here's a story of a lost #joke One of the funniest pieces of spontaneous repartee ever devised and uttered by yours truly. Read on and share my sorrow.
#DEC #DigitalEquipmentCorporation #VAX #VMS #Pun #PlayOnWords
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: Assorted fixes and refurbs (again) | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: Assorted fixes and refurbs (again) | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: Assorted fixes and refurbs | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: Assorted fixes and refurbs | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: Assorted fixes and refurbs | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: Assorted fixes and refurbs | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: Digging through a pile of stuff | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: New Streaming Setup / Cleaning | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: New Streaming Setup / Cleaning | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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I have code for 1 KiB PageGrain on MIPS qemu, which should enable a demonstration of handling a case very near VAX 512 B pages while seamlessly guaranteeing within-allocation-unit promotions to 4 KiB and 16 KiB for 64 KiB allocation units and also seamlessly handling superpage promotions to sizes that are power-of-four multiples of 64 KiB. I think there may have been some testing of a similar scenario using 256 KiB allocation units on LoongArch, but while it was verified that it didn't crash, not much was done to make sure that effective use was being made of sub- allocation unit -sized superpages esp. when there were multiple superpage sizes available between the minimum MMU mapping granularity and the kernel allocation unit.
#telix #qemu #MIPS #VAX #LoongArch
Rolling pgcl forward to 7.0 and the intermediate pre-7.1 somehow resuscitated binutils issues with running LTP and DAMON on hppa and some others, but it got to having no LTP regressions vs. master on 16 arches. I still need to induce enough fragmentation within a qemu session to be able to observe non-negligible defragmentation costs that might be reduced.
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: Buildin' sum stuffs. | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: Buildin' sum stuffs. | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: NetWare's last gasp. For real this time. | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: NetWare's last gasp. For real this time. | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: NetWare's last gasp. For real this time. | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: NetWare's last gasp. For real this time. | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: Cracking the art of 95 on QEMU. | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: Cracking the art of 95 on QEMU. | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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Since I am on an accidental #nostalgia (naustalgia?) trip in trying to find old #MUD things, this one popped up on my Facebook feed which may amuse the #RetroComputing #VAX #VMS and #History of the #Internet folks.
This was UKNet's office in about 1994-1995
I think there are some #SUN and #SGI machines in there too, there definitely were somewhere.
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Since I am on an accidental #nostalgia (naustalgia?) trip in trying to find old #MUD things, this one popped up on my Facebook feed which may amuse the #RetroComputing #VAX #VMS and #History of the #Internet folks.
This was UKNet's office in about 1994-1995
I think there are some #SUN and #SGI machines in there too, there definitely were somewhere.
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Since I am on an accidental #nostalgia (naustalgia?) trip in trying to find old #MUD things, this one popped up on my Facebook feed which may amuse the #RetroComputing #VAX #VMS and #History of the #Internet folks.
This was UKNet's office in about 1994-1995
I think there are some #SUN and #SGI machines in there too, there definitely were somewhere.
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Since I am on an accidental #nostalgia (naustalgia?) trip in trying to find old #MUD things, this one popped up on my Facebook feed which may amuse the #RetroComputing #VAX #VMS and #History of the #Internet folks.
This was UKNet's office in about 1994-1995
I think there are some #SUN and #SGI machines in there too, there definitely were somewhere.
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: I won't let NetWare beat me!!! (Part II)| #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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This is still my favourite personal hackery/security story, and the only one I have ever written about where I am on the naughty-side of the desk.
Different times!
https://artofsecurity.com/2011/humble
#Security #InfoSec #Hacking #DEC #VAX #VMS #Teletype #Blog #History #UniversityofLeicester #FoiledAgain
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This is still my favourite personal hackery/security story, and the only one I have ever written about where I am on the naughty-side of the desk.
Different times!
https://artofsecurity.com/2011/humble
#Security #InfoSec #Hacking #DEC #VAX #VMS #Teletype #Blog #History #UniversityofLeicester #FoiledAgain
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This is still my favourite personal hackery/security story, and the only one I have ever written about where I am on the naughty-side of the desk.
Different times!
https://artofsecurity.com/2011/humble
#Security #InfoSec #Hacking #DEC #VAX #VMS #Teletype #Blog #History #UniversityofLeicester #FoiledAgain
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This is still my favourite personal hackery/security story, and the only one I have ever written about where I am on the naughty-side of the desk.
Different times!
https://artofsecurity.com/2011/humble
#Security #InfoSec #Hacking #DEC #VAX #VMS #Teletype #Blog #History #UniversityofLeicester #FoiledAgain
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This is still my favourite personal hackery/security story, and the only one I have ever written about where I am on the naughty-side of the desk.
Different times!
https://artofsecurity.com/2011/humble
#Security #InfoSec #Hacking #DEC #VAX #VMS #Teletype #Blog #History #UniversityofLeicester #FoiledAgain
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: I won't let NetWare beat me!!! | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: Overlays Bug Stomping | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: Netware on 95? | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
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In the late 1970s Interlisp was ported to DEC VAX computers under Berkeley Unix. These papers reported on the project and its challenges.
https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/LISP/interlisp/Interlisp-VAX_A_Report.pdf
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@holdenweb @cstross @jguillaumes @jlargentaye
Oh, and Andrew McCann was my tutor when I was at Leeds Computational Science, so I assume you knew him fairly well if you were working on SPITBOL.
He was genuinely the only person in that department I got along with, and he was pretty honest with me and told me I should just pack up and leave because it wasn't the right environment for me, personality-wise.
Eventually, he left instead, and I stayed on and slogged through the final year to get a 3rd (the most I could get at that point because I was planning on leaving in my 2nd year and had done nothing, passing my exams was kind of a shock and made me have to rethink). I then got a postgrad placement at Leicester in a place that was the right environment for me, personality-wise.
Amusingly, though, when I left Leicester I went back to Leeds to run systems for another department, and they had to deal with me as a peer. The only person who coped well with that change was Ted Appleby over in Mech Eng. We stayed friends for years, and he gave me a load of SUN, VAX, and SGI stuff for my museum into the early 2000s. These pics were from a 2005 pickup, so he was still there then.
I am going way off topic, but it's an excuse to post pics of old junk :D
#Retrocomputing #museum #SUN #SGI #VAX #LittleIron #Leeds #LeedsUniversity f
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Majenko has just gone live on #twitch: https://twitch.tv/majenkotech - Today's stream title is: VAX Ghidra?! | #VintageComputers #VMS #UNIX #VAX #PDP-11 #RetroComputing
