Hi,

> what sort of performance has anyone seen with running NetBSD on a simh instance
> on a pc?  or is there a better way to get NetBSD on a machine that's actually
> running windows?  (win2k isn't terrible, and i have yet to replace all the
> things i need with a NetBSD version  (Outlook being the main one)

I seriously doubt that ANY email client will ever duplicate the
functionality of Outlook. Its ability to run foreign code is unparalleled.
Even if someone can duplicate that, building a security system into Unix
to allow the email client to have unfettered access to all of the system's
resources is a daunting task in itself, and could take years to duplicate.

> i *really* like having a copy of VMS on my laptop (with the help of simh) and
> if i could do the same for NetBSD, i would love that too.  i don't like not
> having unix on my laptop (i have a NetBSD that dual boots with my win2k, but
> i never seem to use it.)

I tried simh on a 1466 MHz AMD system running NetBSD, but found that my
VAXStation 4000/60 was far faster. So I'm sticking with the real thing for
bulk package builds until a more optimised version of simh becomes
available.

In my opinion, the performance isn't there yet except for experimental
things.

John Klos
Sixgirls Computing Labs