31 May
2013
31 May
'13
8:49 a.m.
At 11:21 AM -0400 5/31/13, David Riley wrote:
I think it SIMH would work for DECdocument, but I'm not sure if it
could handle anything else I run. :-) Even the AlphaStation 200
4/233 would be painfully slow for some things. For a VAX I'd moved
My primary
OpenVMS server, the one I ran 24x7, and served up data on
the Internet for years moved from an Alphastation 200 4/233 -> DEC
3000/300LX -> 433au -> Compaq XP1000/667. It also started with a
single internal SCSI HD, made it up to two BA350's that were mostly
full, and now has dual 3-drive SCA JBOD boxes. It also has 4mm DAT
and DLT tape drives (in the past it's had 8mm and DLT tape libraries).
The XP1000 has plenty of CPU power, RAM, and disk space for RDB and
WASD, but the configuration sucks power like crazy. Still I
seriously miss having a VMS server online, and am considering moving
it back to an AlphaStation 4/233.
Alternatively, Simh simulates a uVAX 3900 faster than my actual 3900
even on a moderately-powered Core2 machine. That could be handy if
you're not focused on having the actual iron running and have spare
cycles on a machine (on an early Opteron, I'll testify that it takes
up pretty much a whole CPU by itself, even at idle, but you can
always renice it down). from a VAXstation 4000/vlc to a 4000/60 due to issues
with the VLC.
Zane
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