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CrayCore is a CRAY YMP-EL Emulator. Currently, CrayCore executes instructions one at a time, through a command line interface. Future plans are to slowly add features until CrayCore is fully able to run Unicos. CrayCore version .3 has been released, in two packages, a source.zip, and a win32 binary. New features include light memory support, vector support, and many more opcodes. Be sure to check OpcodesTwo.txt, included with both packages for status on which instructions are implemented, and how to use them.

The author of the hobby OS Blueillusion writes:

We assume Bochs is already installed. You can download an bootable Bochs disk image from here. Then uncompress it with "tar -jxvf disk1.tar.bz2" and modify Bochs' configuration (make the cd bootable) ~/.bochsrc: boot: disk ata0-master: type=disk, mode=flat, translation=auto, path="/freevms/freevms.dsk", cylinders=130, heads=16, spt=63, biosdetect=auto, model="Generic 1234". It should show you this boot prompt. More FreeVMS info here.

ComputerWorld has an article about OpenVMS which maintains a substantial user base in large organizations, and there's promise of new interest as it moves to 64-bit Itanium.

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The Open Croquet project released its public developer's release today. OpenCroquet is a promising framework based on Squeak.

Unununium Operating Engine got its 0.1 official release on Sunday. This release boots with a minimal shell and... a python interpreter! You can download a floppy image or an ISO from the official website.

To get better compliancy with RSS, we upgraded our feed to RSS 1.0. Please refresh your feeds, test and report any problems in the comment section. On other site news, the GTK+ browser Dillo is now working better with our comment.php pages. The GnomeFiles.org feed also saw an update recently, it is now formatted in lovely HTML (it will remain in RDF version 0.9 though, as it will the NMC feed, because their creation php code is hairy).

Virtual machine software allows you to run one operating system (and its applications) from within the environment of another. For years the most recognized name in virtual machine software for the x86 architecture has been VMware, whose eponymous industry-leading product supports a wide variety of guest operating systems. Read the review at NewsForge.

As users chose to supplement their RISC OS computers with a second machine, there grows a need to manage files over a network. With this in mind, Paul Stewart guides us through evaluating and configuring NFS with RISC OS and Windows.

Visopsys 0.42 has been released with various touch-ups and bug fixes, plus partition formatting in the Disk Manager, and other GUI enhancements.

When people hear mention of the OpenVMS operating system and Alpha-based servers, they typically think ''old'' and ''legacy''. And then they think about buying something much more modern. It might appear very strange for a company to buy a brand new OpenVMS operating system. Yet that's exactly what the IT department did at the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network in Philadelphia.

Menuet v0.78-pre3 was released yesterday. Besides some bug fixes, the main change is a new look to the user interface.

Athene is a desktop system for Linux that uses its own graphics drivers for high speed access to your graphics card. On version 4.1, resolution and display management functionality were improved. File and folder security information were added to the file manager. New hot-keys such as alt-tab window focusing were added. Dead-key support for international keyboards was added. Some bugs have also been fixed.