My first sysadmin job ever started out by hauling these beasts into our store room so they could be sent off for scrap, as all the developers were getting PCs running Franz Lisp insted.
Kinda makes me sad that all of this is still proprietary as hell. Would love to see them do a ‘hobbyist license’ like DEC -> HP do with VMS so people who want to could play with it legally.
There was a VMWare appliance floating around the warez sites a while back, but I’ve reached a point in my life where stealing software isn’t something I’m particularly wild about.
Genera’s “You have crashed to firmware” message is still my all time favorite OS crash error: “You are lost in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike” or similar :)
There are some articles floating around on getting Genera or OpenGenera to run on Linux. This article was the last one I saw. I did just find this one. There’s also a Youtube video but it was pretty long with a lot of steps. Just skimmed it to see the author had Genera running. Lot of steps, though, so can’t say how much value it has.
Always seemed like Genera could use a pre-packaged and mostly-set-up VM. There’s at least Movitz now if anyone wants a modern, building block.
My first sysadmin job ever started out by hauling these beasts into our store room so they could be sent off for scrap, as all the developers were getting PCs running Franz Lisp insted.
Kinda makes me sad that all of this is still proprietary as hell. Would love to see them do a ‘hobbyist license’ like DEC -> HP do with VMS so people who want to could play with it legally.
There was a VMWare appliance floating around the warez sites a while back, but I’ve reached a point in my life where stealing software isn’t something I’m particularly wild about.
Genera’s “You have crashed to firmware” message is still my all time favorite OS crash error: “You are lost in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike” or similar :)
There are some articles floating around on getting Genera or OpenGenera to run on Linux. This article was the last one I saw. I did just find this one. There’s also a Youtube video but it was pretty long with a lot of steps. Just skimmed it to see the author had Genera running. Lot of steps, though, so can’t say how much value it has.
Always seemed like Genera could use a pre-packaged and mostly-set-up VM. There’s at least Movitz now if anyone wants a modern, building block.
That is exactly the pirate distro I was referring to. It’s actually OpenGenera running on Alpha Linux.