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[Andrew Back]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Scott Quinn wrote:

> That would be difficult. OpenVMS AXP can be done (but is not convenient - 
> I've been keeping tabs on the Hobbyist distro and they're trying to remaster 
> with v8.2, but it is slow).
>
> v8.anything VAX would require acquisition of sources and backporting. VAX 
> support stopped at 7.3 (boo, hiss, and all that I suppose).
>
> BTW, excl. a better SSH (which can be done with Multinet or TCPware, see 
> www.process.com [they even have hobbyist licenses]) what are the advantages 
> of v8 for you?

I didn't realise VAX ended with 7.3 and was hoping for a 7.3-2, had no 
real need for 8. I have a fairly recent (last few years IIRC) consolidated
distribution and had anticipated that the current versions of various 
things I wanted to play with (X.400 and X.500) might require 7.3-2, but 
since there isn't one for VAX they can't! And can get round the ssh issue 
if a v1 protocol version did ship with last TCP/IP for VAX.

Andrew