27 Apr
2016
27 Apr
'16
6:07 a.m.
Zitat von Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net>:
If "accurate" means to run VMS or Unix,
it shouldn't be to difficult.
On Apr 27, 2016, at 3:47 AM, Dave Wade
<dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote:
...
Digital is now a fond memory for most. Both VAX and Alpha are no
longer manufactured.
I actually wonder if an FPGA VAX chip could be made that would run
faster than existing real VAXEN. That could perhaps form the basis
of a nice VaxStation...
Clearly that's possible given that today's clock speeds are much
higher than those of any VAX, and you could put caches on-chip as
well for additional points. The difficulty would be to create an
accurate enough implementation. For that matter, by the same reasoning it should be
doable (and
quite possibly easier) to build an FPGA Alpha. Is the Alpha
architecture manual ("SRM") online?
Is there any demand for it, besides of being fun?
Cheers