25 Jun
2018
25 Jun
'18
6:07 p.m.
On 06/24/2018 01:22 AM, Zane Healy wrote:
I don?t know Dave, I never thought I?d see the day when I?d be using emulation as my
primary platform, but I am for both VAX and PDP-11 now. I?m even looking into moving my
Compaq XP1000/667 over to an emulator. Most of the data and some of the applications are
now on my VAXcluster, which makes good backups easier. PDXVAX is still a VAXstation 4000,
but will be moving to SIMH soon. That would have happened this weekend most likely,
except my internet is down, so I can?t get the OS for the host system.
Zane, I'm not saying that I don't run any emulators; I run emulators
all the time.
But I also have about a hundred (possibly over a hundred) real
physical VAXen and PDP-11s here, I adore every one of them, and I run a
public museum built around some of them (among other things).
Emulators will replace physical computers for me when the physical
computers no longer run (and I can no longer repair them), and then,
only for actually running software.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
But yes, there is no point in simulating a star
coupler, since it's just
a passive device anyhow. And HSC emulation only needs to talk the CI
protocol and act as (T)MSCP server side. No point, or need, to emulate
an actual HSC and run CRONIC on it.
About as much point as running VMS under emulation. I have real HSCs
here connecting real hardware, but I'd surely run an emulated HSC
connecting emulated hardware if it were available. I'd even be quite
excited about it.