Vax emulator?

From: Kevin Handy <kth_at_srv.net>
Date: Thu Aug 28 14:27:00 2003

Fred N. van Kempen wrote:

>On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Graham Toal wrote:
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>>I have access to licenced VMS install CDs that came with some uVaxen
>>some time ago at the University where I work. The systems have been
>>surplussed long ago but we kept the software. If there a decent
>>(free) emulator that will run these on a Windows/XP or Linux PC?
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>>The ones I've found on the net would appear to be either commercial or
>>sufficiently cut down or incomplete as not to be practical, but this is
>>just from reading, not from using. I'd be delighted to be proven wrong.
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>SimH/VAX works fine for most VMS playage.. it supports a fair set of
>disks, terminal controllers, tapes, and emulates a KA655 (MicroVAX 3800
>et al) system with up to 32MB of memory. It also supports Ethernet,
>and can run under either several flavors of U*ix, VMS or Win32.
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The only problems with simh networking that I have found, is that it must
run as root, and LAT doesn't work very well in my setup (not exactly sure
why, except that LAT doesn't route well)
Received on Thu Aug 28 2003 - 14:27:00 BST