Make:

• Self-printing Game of Life in C#
• Micro-controller based photo-plotter
• CAPS LOCK trainer key
• Run Win apps on Mac/Linux (free)
• 3D scanners using a webcam and laser pointers
• Make your mice and keyboards talk serial and vice versa

That's a Solaris Desktop, isn't it?

Uhh, no, that's CDE. It also ran on VMS.
You can tell it's VMS by the terminal in the upper left corner. Since when do you do "SHOW USER" on Solaris?

Miss the VMS world, though. It was a great OS, and incredibly stable and secure. My college district still runs it for student records.

Ah, yes, SHOW USER. You could see information on processes and people logged in. Sometimes it would show NO PRIVILEGE in the user name. You could set your user name. I sometimes set mine to NO PRIVILEGE. (Why can't I see his name?)

My application has sixteen independent programs that pass messages to each other to manage machine tool systems. This is about 1,500,000 lines of code. No way could this be done on a PC.

Checkout the OpenVMS projects at www.freevms.org
and
http://www.systella.fr/~bertrand/FreeVMS/indexGB.html

P.S. Every now and then I have had a problem pulling up the second URL.

Alpha 4000, we like to reboot it occasionally; say every 18 months or so. Tax collection, water bills, accounting, property assessing, payroll, fire dispatch, and I forget what else for a Massachusetts town of 35,000.

I'm home! I still use those tools daily here at Sun.
We are on Gnome, but can still run the VMS tools. w00t

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