7 Mar
2019
7 Mar
'19
6:56 p.m.
On 03/07/2019 10:50 AM, Zane Healy wrote:
Hi Zane,
Been a classic comp member for eons as well. and before all that
alt.sys.* and other usenet groups.
Been gone
a few years but the archive was saved and goes back to 2010.
The tinkerboard? is an ARM based on the Rpi format only 1.8GHz quad
core
and 2gig of ram.
I figure that will be adequate for an under 10 watt system.
My non-intel/amd steampunk laptop is a rpi3b with 10inch display and
real keyboard and mouse in a wood box.
Plenty of compute power.
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+).
;)
Allison
Zane