On 7/7/21 9:34 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2021-07-07 15:03, Paul Koning wrote:
On Jul 7, 2021, at 8:02 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost> wrote:
On 2021-07-07 13:37, Anders Magnusson wrote:
Den 2021-07-07 kl. 11:37, skrev Hans Rosenfeld:
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And, can we perhaps get a PDP11 compatibility mode, too? Like the one
early VAX-11 models had? Please? :)
Thanks for breathing some life back into the VAX, and into port-vax.
This is so amazing on so many levels. :)
Hm, I haven't thought of that before, but it might be quite trivial
to do that.
Almost no extra hardware, just a separate match for the microassembler.
I'd be a little curious on why anyone would want it, though. (Even
me, being a PDP-11 fanatic, isn't that interested in this
compatibility mode...)
It allows running early VMS releases.
Ah. True. But would you even try to do that on some new FPGA
implementation of a VAX?
I sure has hell would.
If I wanted to run old VMS, seems like simh would be a simpler way.
Simpler, and lesser...but that seems not to be the point. Don't get
me wrong, simh is amazing and I use it all the time, but face it, it's
the computer equivalent of an inflatable rubber girl doll. It will get
the job done, but real hardware is a whole lot more satisfying.
Seriously, who where wouldn't be interested in, say, a 1U rackmount
current-hardware VAX?