Re: Userland emulator

[Anders Magnusson <ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost>]

On 03/25/2013 08:10 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2013-03-25 18:21, Mouse wrote:
> > > Note that DEC added virtualization support to the VAX architecture
> > > already back in -87 :-)
> >
> > > Would be an interesting task to get NetBSD make use of it.
> >
> > Which real VAXen have support for it?
>
> None, as far as I know. It was defined in VARM, but never implemented. 
> (But I might be wrong.)
Which doesn't matter so much; we could always add those insn's to simh 
and do the port.
Look at amd64, the emulator was available a long time before the real 
hardware :-)

...which also calls for extending the vax to 64 bits.  Any takers? :-)

-- Ragge