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Peter Hicks
Personal blog · blog.poggs.comsystemshardware
Peter Hicks's personal blog at blog.poggs.com covers systems and hardware. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “OpenVMS on a Raspberry Pi”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Peter Hicks's post describes running OpenVMS on a Raspberry Pi. One HN commenter points to it as a way to run the system today, in a thread about the dying OS.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- OpenVMS on a Raspberry Pi2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-04
What Hacker News says?
You can run it on a Raspberry Pi these days: https://blog.poggs.com/2020/04/21/openvms-on-a-raspberry-pi/
Comment linking /2020/04/21/openvms-on-a-raspberry-pi/
on “A Requiem for a Dying Operating System (1994)”Submitted OpenVMS on a Raspberry Pi as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted MikroTik to Ubiquiti as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Rail Data slides as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
