Subject: Re: from bad to worse....
To: Lord Isildur <mrfusion@uranium.vaxpower.org>
From: Henry R. Bent <hbent@cs.oberlin.edu>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/16/2003 12:26:14
Lord Isildur wrote:
> 
> not by their doing, no, but...
> i have an advertising gimmick somehwere at home that has printed on it
> "RUN CPM AND MSDOS (coming soon) PROGRAMS ON YOUR VAX!"
> some kind of micro emulator for vms from what i gather. the company was
> shawmut technologies, probably long defunct. so even in the days before
> dosemu and the like... m$ shite could be run on a vax. :)

Wow... I have SoftPC for MIPS Ultrix (in theory - I need a license to run it)
but emulating a PC on a VAX would be absolutely crazy.  I would laugh my head
off at some big VAX4k/700 running Windows 3.1 :-)

<goes to other room, starts building bochs on a 4k/90...>

-- 
Henry Bent
hbent@cs.oberlin.edu