[Raion]

You can sell those for a massive profit. Try to save all of them.

[lunatic]

pakgen.c exists

Yes, but I was also thinking about community support. This can't be the main way to get VMS running, because then you might have some company lawyer coming after you. I personally gave up on VMS some years ago, mostly because it just wasn't fun anymore. You simply couldn't do anything with it. Nobody wrote software for it anymore. VMS is in this strange situation that it loses apps over time for a long, long time (VAX > Alpha > IA64). The installed base has been shrinking forever and VMS isn't generic enough like a Unix to make adaptation/porting of newer software a 1 man project.
Honestly, I am really not sure what gets VSI funded... My only imagination is that VMS is still used in some secret gov lab where they need this to be able to push some important button or something...

[shrek]

VMS is really, really cool and the VSI people responded to my application in only a few days. I received my hobbyist Alpha PAKs the other day and got the latest version running in AXPbox. No networking or CDE yet tho. The VMS command line (DCL) is a bear if you're used to UNIX-y type shells. I like the versioning file system and some of the more intuitive commands. copy copies, delete deletes, rename renames, and type types out a file on the terminal.