[HECnet] SIMH for VMS on VAX

On 16 Jan 2013, at 23:56, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: On 01/16/2013 11:53 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: Yes, that's SIMH running *on* VMS. Binaries are here, currently only for VAX, still working on alpha, feel free to download: ebola::disk$user:[decnet.simh.vax] Note that there's no network support. Network support works on Alpha, but not VAX. Not sure why. I just shut down an instance of RSTS/E v10.1 under SIMH on my VAX 7700. I'm currently booting VMS 7.3. =) There's just something surreal about simulating a VAX on a VAX. Yep. How many layers deep do you wanna go? ;) Just a few beyond absurdly deep. I think this is already absurdly deep. ;) I'm running this on one of the fastest VAXen ever built, designed to support HUNDREDS of simultaneous interactive users, and it's...well, running this particular thing very, very slowly. ;) (still booting..) Now, try it on your -11/750. ;) No! Nor the 11/730 either! And DEFINITELY not the MicroVAX-I! Probably best actually, I think everyone here would die before the simulator booted on those. ;) Well ok, I take that back. I might actually try to boot OS/8 under the PDP-8 emulator on one of those platforms. That'd probably be ok. Probably. Try the Altair emulator and see how quickly you can overflow by doing multiplication. ;) I want to build simh on my Alpha now. ;) Also, while you're here: update your tunnel to connect to whatever gewt.ath.cx resolves to please. I haven't learned enough about IOS scripting to automate a way to periodically see if my IP changed. If I figure out if statements and how to handle exit status of ping, I can do that part easy. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA