7 Mar
2019
7 Mar
'19
4:50 p.m.
On Mar 7, 2019, at 7:38 AM, allison
<allisonportable at gmail.com> wrote:
Been on hecnet list for years going back to DSL and early Fiber connect.
Then Verizon decided maybe two years ago to stop being a email
provider and I jumped to Gmail. That dropped me off the list, things
got busy and have finally slowed. Finally remembered to wake up
majordomo.
That would explain why I thought you were here already.
Large collection of real machines and maybe
considering putting a
SIMH-VAX on a Asus Tinkerboard. Haven't played with SIMH as I have
the real ones but even the little 3100s use a bit of power.
I finally gave in a little over a year ago, and started using SIMH-VAX, in part as part of
a plan to be able to get VMS back up and running here at home, without the power
requirements of my XP1000/667. End result, for the first time in about 18 years I have a
cluster running again at home, but the XP1000 is still running most of the time. :-) I
find SIMH to be quite nice, and the instance running on my i7 ESXI server is the fastest
VAX I have. The second fastest is my DECnet area router a VAXstation 4000/60 (which I
still need to virtualize).
I?d have probably made better progress on virtualizing my VMS setup, if I hadn?t gotten
distracted by Multics running on the DPS-8/M emulator. It may not be GCOS-8, but at least
it?s running on a DPS-8! :-) It definitely amuses me to have a DPS-8 the size if a deck
of cards (Raspberry Pi 3+).
Zane