Subject: Re: Vax emulator
To: J.S. Havard <enigma@sevensages.org>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 08/17/1999 11:51:11
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, J.S. Havard wrote:
>I think it is getting about time for a Vax emulator. We've got PDP
>emulators out the Wazoo. Guess I need to start pestering Supnik to write
>a Vax one. Or maybe Begemont, because his PDP emu can also do networking.
Hmm...the VAX is a considerably more complex processor than even the
higher-end PDP11s. Emulating one of those would be quite a task.
Besides...with lunchbox-sized VAXstation2000 machines available so cheaply,
why bother?
-Dave McGuire