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Dave McGuire <mcguire@lssmuseum.org> writes:

Hi folks, I thought some here might be interested to hear that we at
the Large Scale Systems Museum have gotten our VAX-11/780 to the
point where it will boot VMS.

Congratulations! That's wonderful news!

Kragen
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That's great! Any plans to migrate it to BSD 4.2? :-)

- DDH

In comp.sys.dec Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> wrote:

Dave McGuire <mcguire@lssmuseum.org> writes:

Hi folks, I thought some here might be interested to hear that we at
the Large Scale Systems Museum have gotten our VAX-11/780 to the
point where it will boot VMS.

Congratulations! That's wonderful news!

Kragen

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David Donald Hooton <ddh@shell02.theworld.com> wrote:

That's great! Any plans to migrate it to BSD 4.2? :-)

Don't do it! Hold out for bug fixes in 4.3!
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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Yes and no. :) We're going to set up a 4.2BSD system disk for it, in addition to the VMS system disk.

So many machines, so few people to wrangle them...if you want to come
out and take on a project, let me know!

-Dave

On 9/15/26 19:58, David Donald Hooton wrote:

That's great! Any plans to migrate it to BSD 4.2? :-)

- DDH

In comp.sys.dec Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> wrote:

Dave McGuire <mcguire@lssmuseum.org> writes:

Hi folks, I thought some here might be interested to hear that we at
the Large Scale Systems Museum have gotten our VAX-11/780 to the
point where it will boot VMS.

Congratulations! That's wonderful news!

Kragen

--
Dave McGuire, President/Curator
Large Scale Systems Museum
New Kensington, PA
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In comp.sys.dec Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:

David Donald Hooton <ddh@shell02.theworld.com> wrote:

That's great! Any plans to migrate it to BSD 4.2? :-)

Don't do it! Hold out for bug fixes in 4.3!
--scott

That's probably a good idea. Back in grad school (RPI), I once crashed the department VAX by exiting a C program without closing a socket. My Master's Project advisor had a positive attitude about it, saying it showed that I
was learning something.

- DDH
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Thanks for the offer, Dave, but I'm not moving to greater Pittsburg any
time soon.

However, if I'm in the area, I'll try to stop by the museum. Sounds like a great place.

- DDH

In comp.sys.dec Dave McGuire <mcguire@lssmuseum.org> wrote:

Yes and no. :) We're going to set up a 4.2BSD system disk for it, in addition to the VMS system disk.

So many machines, so few people to wrangle them...if you want to come
out and take on a project, let me know!

-Dave

On 9/15/26 19:58, David Donald Hooton wrote:

That's great! Any plans to migrate it to BSD 4.2? :-)

- DDH

In comp.sys.dec Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> wrote:

Dave McGuire <mcguire@lssmuseum.org> writes:

Hi folks, I thought some here might be interested to hear that we at >>>> the Large Scale Systems Museum have gotten our VAX-11/780 to the
point where it will boot VMS.

Congratulations! That's wonderful news!

Kragen

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On Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:50:18 -0400 (EDT), David Donald Hooton wrote:

Back in grad school (RPI), I once crashed the department VAX by
exiting a C program without closing a socket. My Master's Project
advisor had a positive attitude about it, saying it showed that I
was learning something.

Surely thatrCOs not your fault.
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In article <118veiu$1crpo$1@dont-email.me>,
Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:50:18 -0400 (EDT), David Donald Hooton wrote:

Back in grad school (RPI), I once crashed the department VAX by
exiting a C program without closing a socket. My Master's Project
advisor had a positive attitude about it, saying it showed that I
was learning something.

Surely thatrCOs not your fault.

It's Sam Leffler's fault. It's never too late to send him an email.
cc: Bill Joy for completeness.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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Back then Unix was lesss stable than now, on the order of a modern
Microsoft product. So, it took a few reboots before I (or was it the
sysadmin?) linked the crashes to my non-priviledged user program. Other
users were not happy.

- DDH

In comp.sys.dec Lawrence DrCOOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:50:18 -0400 (EDT), David Donald Hooton wrote:

Back in grad school (RPI), I once crashed the department VAX by
exiting a C program without closing a socket. My Master's Project
advisor had a positive attitude about it, saying it showed that I
was learning something.

Surely thatrCOs not your fault.

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A: Skid-marks in front of the hedgehog.
Q: WhatrCOs the difference between a dead top-poster on the road, and a
dead hedgehog on the road?
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On 9/22/26 9:22 PM, David Donald Hooton wrote:

Thanks for the offer, Dave, but I'm not moving to greater Pittsburg any
time soon.

I tried to talk my wife into moving to the New Kensington area when we retire in about 4 years, but she doesn't want the winters. I spent my first 18 years just south of Buffalo so I think I can still handle them. At least that's what I tell myself. We will be going someplace cooler than Fort Worth, TX where we are now though.
--
John H. Reinhardt

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John H. Reinhardt <johnhreinhardt@thereinhardts.org> wrote:

I tried to talk my wife into moving to the New Kensington area when we retire in about 4 years, but she doesn't want the winters. I spent my first 18 years just south of Buffalo so I think I can still handle them. At least that's what I tell myself. We will be going someplace cooler than Fort Worth, TX where we are now though.

Move to Timonium, MD and volunteer at the Systems Computer Museum. They
have all my microvaxen and someone should get them working. It's a bedrooom community of Baltimore and it has winter but not Buffalo-grade winter by any stretch.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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"John H. Reinhardt" <johnhreinhardt@thereinhardts.org> writes:

On 9/22/26 9:22 PM, David Donald Hooton wrote:

Thanks for the offer, Dave, but I'm not moving to greater Pittsburg any
time soon.

I tried to talk my wife into moving to the New Kensington area when we retire
in about 4 years, but she doesn't want the winters. I spent my first 18 years
just south of Buffalo so I think I can still handle them. At least that's what
I tell myself. We will be going someplace cooler than Fort Worth, TX where we are now though.

Coastal California. Perfect weather (A/C not required), no rain for six months.

Every summer day is sunny and warm and winter days reach the 60s.
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On 9/23/26 20:36, John H. Reinhardt wrote:

Thanks for the offer, Dave, but I'm not moving to greater Pittsburg any
time soon.

I tried to talk my wife into moving to the New Kensington area when we retire in about 4 years, but she doesn't want the winters.

Yebbbut...how much time does she *really* spend outdoors? ;)

I spent my
first 18 years just south of Buffalo so I think I can still handle
them.-a At least that's what I tell myself.-a We will be going someplace cooler than Fort Worth, TX where we are now though.

Keep working on her. ;) We sure could use you at LSSM!

-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, President/Curator
Large Scale Systems Museum
New Kensington, PA
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