After a lot of messing to do with networking (am now using a USB network stick as a 2nd ethernet controller dedicated to the SIMH VAX instance) I have an emulated VAX on the PI: msw at hpm:~$ telnet pivax Trying 192.168.1.194... Connected to pivax.hecnet.eu. Escape character is '^]'. Welcome to OpenVMS (TM) VAX Operating System, Version V7.3 Username: system Password: Welcome to OpenVMS (TM) VAX Operating System, Version V7.3 Last interactive login on Monday, 11-JUN-2012 13:51 -- http://www.wickensonline.co.uk http://declegacy.org.uk