1 INFO-VAX	Sun, 02 Apr 2006	Volume 2006 : Issue 182       Contents: Re: DVD+RW drives on Alpha 8.x Re: KDM70 specs?. Re: Opinion: I was just trying to sell OpenVMS Re: VAX 7000 series  Zip for Vms  Re: Zip for Vms   F ----------------------------------------------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 11:32:26 +1000 $ From: Phaeton <phaeton@iinet.net.au>' Subject: Re: DVD+RW drives on Alpha 8.x I Message-ID: <442f29a2$0$2109$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au>    Eberhard Heuser-Hofmann wrote: [...snip...]? > If you want to use all media (DVD+-R(W), DVD-RAM, DVD+-R DL),  > you should buy DVDwrite. > 
 > Eberhard > F > PS: The first blue ray drive are avaliable, someone is interested to  > burn 25 GB/50 GB on one disk??  B 	There is still a "format war" going on between Blu-Ray and HD DVDE 	( not unlike the VHS vs. Beta wrangle. ) Not to mention the price of / 	a Blue-Ray burner is astronomical currently...   C 	Also, technology changes so fast, that by the time these two fight D 	it out, there will be other ( better and higher capacity ) formats,) 	like holographic storage, for example... E                                                      Cheers,    Csaba   E --------------------------------------------------------------------- F   CSABA I. HARANGOZO  |d|i|g|i|t|a|l|  phaeton at iinet dot net dot auE --------------------------------------------------------------------- <     EARTH::AUSTRALIA:[SYDNEY]HARANGOZO.CSABA;1, delete? [N]:  C   Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.    ------------------------------  $ Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 20:09:25 -05002 From: "Timothy Stark" <fsword7_nospam@comcast.net> Subject: Re: KDM70 specs? : Message-ID: <n5qdnbpM1I3aubLZnZ2dnUVZ_tednZ2d@comcast.com>   Hello folks,  C Well, never mind that.  I checked manx archives again and found it.    Thanks Tim   > "Timothy Stark" <fsword7_nospam@comcast.net> wrote in message * news:-eCdndqCbMUTErHZRVn-rA@comcast.com... > Hello folks, > M > I was looking for some I/O disk programming with KDM70 disk controller for  M > XMI interface for other operating systems like NetBSD, etc. but can't find  M > any information on Manx archives, etc.  Does anyone have a copy or is that   > proprietary hardware?  > 	 > Thanks!  > Tim    ------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:59:19 -0500 - From: JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@teksavvy.com> 7 Subject: Re: Opinion: I was just trying to sell OpenVMS , Message-ID: <442F05C6.46520135@teksavvy.com>   GreyCloud wrote:@ > Tell that to those that use VMS in the stock market exchanges.? > Tell that to US military that still has contracts for JStars.     H If VMS is going to be competing in the same niche markets as Tandem/NSK,E is there a point for the owner of both VMS and NSK to maintain both ?   F VMS was downsized by its owners to a point where it is only in a niche8 market despite it being a very capable operating system.  G NSK was never designed to be versatile. It is very specialised. VMS was F not designed to be specialised. It is very versatile. And the owner is+ purposefully not leveraging this potential.    ------------------------------  $ Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 20:26:07 -05002 From: "Timothy Stark" <fsword7_nospam@comcast.net> Subject: Re: VAX 7000 series: Message-ID: <cKWdnbeSZuivtbLZnZ2dnUVZ_sednZ2d@comcast.com>  @ "Bob Willard" <BobwBSGS@TrashThis.comcast.net> wrote in message 4 news:NZidnbou3sULfp3ZnZ2dnUVZ_sGdnZ2d@comcast.com...L > Dollars to donuts you won't find a BI SRM, since the BI was a proprietary  > bus. > H > One of KO's worst decisions, IMHO, was declaring the BI to be closed,  > since G > that prevented third-party designers from making lots of I/O widgets   > available J > on VAXen.  In an earlier era, one of the key reasons for the success of 	 > PDP-11s K > was the de facto openness of the UNIBUS and the Q-BUS -- and the tons of   > I/O A > widgets, both weird and wonderful, from non-DEC sources.  Sigh.   J Yes, I confirmed that when I researched it through the Internet and found A something.  It said that DEC engineers designed VAXBI system for  H open-standards but marketing and mangement depts want it as propreitary L instead.  Yes, I agree with you about that.  I favor open-standard hardware > rather than propreitary devices because they lasts longer and  wider-selection, etc.   K How about register-level I/O programming for third-party operating systems   like NetBSD, etc?    Thanks!  Tim    ------------------------------  $ Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 08:18:08 +0200 From: "bary" <bary@dreams.com> Subject: Zip for Vms1 Message-ID: <e0nmnk$80d$1@news2.netvision.net.il>   L I try to run Zip for vms and the result is "too many paramters". This happenH even when I try to run it with no paramter but with the option -h. Using1 symbols instead of running directly dowsn't help. I Running the exe without any additions causes it to display the help page.    Can someone advise please?   Regards    Bary   ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 07:34:48 +0200 8 From: Ulrich Bellgardt <UliBellgardtsSpamSink@online.de> Subject: Re: Zip for Vms$ Message-ID: <e0nnpo$hb0$1@online.de>   bary wrote: N > I try to run Zip for vms and the result is "too many paramters". This happenJ > even when I try to run it with no paramter but with the option -h. Using3 > symbols instead of running directly dowsn't help. K > Running the exe without any additions causes it to display the help page.  >  > Can someone advise please? >   @ seems you start ZIP.EXE using the regular $RUN command, and then2 	$ RUN ZIP.EXE -h results in %DCL-W-MAXPARM etc...  8 If you define ZIP as a  "foreign command" like  ZIP :==  $MYZIPDISK:[MYZIPDIR]ZIP.EXE, I then you can start $ZIP with any required number of parameters,  like "$   ZIP -h"    Regards, -Uli Bellgardt   ------------------------------   End of INFO-VAX 2006.182 ************************