Subject: Re: PC based VAX emulators? (free or commerical)
To: Brian Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
From: Dan Kolb <daniel.kolb@corpus-christi.oxford.ac.uk>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/01/2000 16:28:53
Brian Chase wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know if there exists an PC based (Windows or DOS) VAX
> emulator?  I got some e-mail from a professor in Solvenia looking to teach
> his students VAX MACRO, but they've no VAX, so he's looking for an
> emulator to use on their PCs.
> 
> Barring the existence of a cost-effective emulator, maybe some of our
> Eastern European colleagues here can find an actual VAX system for his
> students to use?  I'm assuming he'd want to run VMS on it in order to use
> the really nice MACRO assembler instead of the not-so-nice gas assembler.
> 
> -brian.
> --- Brian Chase | bdc@world.std.com | http://world.std.com/~bdc/ -----
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I've found one (some time ago) called evax. I'm not sure how good it is,
as I haven't installed it. It's Free (speech), and I've put the tgz of
the source and a gzip of the PDF manual at
http://ox.compsoc.net/~dankolb/evax
The whole lot together is around 400k to download.

Dan
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