Loading HACKING.md 0 → 100644 +40 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line # Road Map There are a few personal goals for this repo. If other people join in, they might have more to add. For now the road map for this repo looks like this: 1. (currently here) Gather the files. So far the only source seems to be decuslib.com. However there might be others so I'll send some more emails over the next few weeks to see. 2. Build a timeline from the various versions that have been acquired. Use that to populate a `historical` branch and the `master` branch as well. 3. Try to document how bulletin looked. One way would be to get it running on an emulator. So far I've only found VMS 7.3. A copy of VMS 4 or 5 would be better. Emulation is really only useful for getting an idea of what it looked like - for me I don't know VMS well enough to secure it for exposure to the net. Alternatively, it might be possible to port it. This gets explored further down, but it would not be easy. 4. Assuming a port isn't done (likely), reimplement in Go. Just the local bulletin functionality initially. And make it simple. Just use the local fs and setuid/gid-type functionality. Mimic the old ISAM VMS stores with protobufs and some sort of file locking. Creating protobuf services to exchange boards could come later. But generally no web, not client-server, just plain-old file-based IPC. ## Emulation * [Step by step guide](http://www.wherry.com/gadgets/retrocomputing/vax-simh.html) for getting OpenVMS 7.3 up and running on simh. * [Notes on networking](https://vanalboom.org/node/18) and clustering on simh. Might not need this. ## Port to Linux While a rewrite is preferred, a port might be possible. Some interesting links on getting VMS FORTRAN running on a Linux/Unix system: * A [script](http://www.simconglobal.com/vms.html) to do this using a proprietary tool called FTP. Need to contact them about licensing. * Things to [look out for](http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/225). bulletin/README.mddeleted 100644 → 0 +0 −9 Original line number Diff line number Diff line ## Port to Linux While a rewrite is preferred, a port might be possible. Some interesting links on getting VMS FORTRAN running on a Linux/Unix system: * A [script](http://www.simconglobal.com/vms.html) to do this using a proprietary tool called FTP. Need to contact them about licensing. * Things to [look out for](http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/225). Loading
HACKING.md 0 → 100644 +40 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line # Road Map There are a few personal goals for this repo. If other people join in, they might have more to add. For now the road map for this repo looks like this: 1. (currently here) Gather the files. So far the only source seems to be decuslib.com. However there might be others so I'll send some more emails over the next few weeks to see. 2. Build a timeline from the various versions that have been acquired. Use that to populate a `historical` branch and the `master` branch as well. 3. Try to document how bulletin looked. One way would be to get it running on an emulator. So far I've only found VMS 7.3. A copy of VMS 4 or 5 would be better. Emulation is really only useful for getting an idea of what it looked like - for me I don't know VMS well enough to secure it for exposure to the net. Alternatively, it might be possible to port it. This gets explored further down, but it would not be easy. 4. Assuming a port isn't done (likely), reimplement in Go. Just the local bulletin functionality initially. And make it simple. Just use the local fs and setuid/gid-type functionality. Mimic the old ISAM VMS stores with protobufs and some sort of file locking. Creating protobuf services to exchange boards could come later. But generally no web, not client-server, just plain-old file-based IPC. ## Emulation * [Step by step guide](http://www.wherry.com/gadgets/retrocomputing/vax-simh.html) for getting OpenVMS 7.3 up and running on simh. * [Notes on networking](https://vanalboom.org/node/18) and clustering on simh. Might not need this. ## Port to Linux While a rewrite is preferred, a port might be possible. Some interesting links on getting VMS FORTRAN running on a Linux/Unix system: * A [script](http://www.simconglobal.com/vms.html) to do this using a proprietary tool called FTP. Need to contact them about licensing. * Things to [look out for](http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/225).
bulletin/README.mddeleted 100644 → 0 +0 −9 Original line number Diff line number Diff line ## Port to Linux While a rewrite is preferred, a port might be possible. Some interesting links on getting VMS FORTRAN running on a Linux/Unix system: * A [script](http://www.simconglobal.com/vms.html) to do this using a proprietary tool called FTP. Need to contact them about licensing. * Things to [look out for](http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/225).
