New In the Labs...
28-Feb-2007
The Migration to the new HoffmanLabs web site has commenced.
HoffmanLabs is now an authorized HP Business Partner, specializing in OpenVMS.
Other Activities and Updates
- Uploaded a PDF conversion, and re-uploaded the text and Postscript versions of the OpenVMS FAQ. This should resolve file-format incompatibility issues. The contents of the zip archive and of the FAQ document itself remain unchanged.
- The OpenVMS Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) September 2006 edition is now available. HTML, zips and related are posted. (And the Bookreader format has been retired.)
- HoffmanLabs Professional Services and Support offerings are now available.
- Update VAXstation 8000 information, add SCSI and DSSI information to the Q-bus page, and expand the lists of VAX models.
- The HP OpenVMS V8.3 release, and the HP Integrity rx3600 and rx6600 series boxes.
- Fixes for various dead links, various link updates and corrections, and for pages — missing index files — that had erroneously permitted direct directory access.
- An off-line evaluation and prototype-related work built upon Wordpress (itself built on PHP and MySQL) is underway, as a potential replacement platform for the current XHTML/CSS-based HoffmanLabs. If the Wordpress prototype proves acceptable, the HoffmanLabs web site will likely migrate. Radically.
- Recently added is a section on hardware emulation.
- HP has announced the OpenVMS Hobbyist program licenses for OpenVMS I64.
- A section on Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) has been added, a sometimes-frustrating device that the familiar VCR has morphed into. (Devices such as TiVo and Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition (MCE) both provide DVR capabilities, as do various other widgets.)
- DTV storage information. Big data. Big disks. Big storage. No big deal.
- The OpenVMS Hobbyist disk information (including CD and DVD device information), and various updates related to the Itanium 2 processor 9000 series, and the OpenVMS FAQ (July 2006 edition). There have been various other minor updates throughout the site, as well.
HoffmanLabs is also presently contining investigation of various storage technologies, as well as build-it-yourself PC systems and particularly Digital Video Recording (DVR) systems, including the Microsoft Windows Media Edition (MCE) platform and Linux with MythTV. Having gobs of storage, of course, is central to most any HD DTV DVR.
Details of these (and of other whims) to follow...