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First boot!

Finally, here's the happy news message we've all been waiting for for so long:

I can now confirm the first boot of OpenVMS on the ES40 emulator. In honour of good OpenVMS engineering practice, I've defined "first boot" as the first succesful directory listing.

This feat was accomplished by Eduardo Marcelo Serrat, who sent me a couple of patches that made this possible.

I'm currently integrating his changes into the repository, so you can expect the availability of a new version release soon.

Many thanks to Eduardo for his fine work.

Before I forget, here's the directory listing:

$ dir dqa0:[sys0]

Directory DQA0:[SYS0]

DIA$TOOLS.DIR;1 MOM$SYSTEM.DIR;1 SYS$I18N.DIR;1 SYS$LDR.DIR;1
SYS$STARTUP.DIR;1 SYSCBI.DIR;1 SYSCOMMON.DIR;1 SYSERR.DIR;1
SYSEXE.DIR;1 SYSHLP.DIR;1 SYSLIB.DIR;1 SYSMAINT.DIR;1
SYSMGR.DIR;1 SYSMSG.DIR;1 SYSTEST.DIR;1 SYSUPD.DIR;1
TNT.DIR;1

Total of 17 files.
$ sho cpu

System: VMS, AlphaServer ES40

CPU ownership sets:
Active 0
Configure 0

CPU state sets:
Potential 0
Autostart 0-3
Powered Down None
Failover None

Posted by Camiel Vanderhoeven 2007-10-31

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