17 Dec
2001
17 Dec
'01
5:08 a.m.
The commercial
VAX simulator is extremely expensive, and the SIMH and TS10
aren't there yet. Even so, the keyword was "native". I don't want
the
performance hit that comes with running an emulation.
I agree that Charon-VAX is expensive but seeing how well SIMH has gone
with the other emultations I would expect that it will provide a bootable
VAX environment shortly. The problem with the Alphabook was that it's not
exactly fast and
the battery life is short. They are also hard to find and expensive
should you find one. I suspect that a 1GHz laptop will run a VAX
emulation faster than the Alphabook with better battery life too.
I'm guessing the Alphabook will still be faster than an emulated VAX
on a 1GHz laptop, since that will probably be about the equivalent
to a MV3600 (that's what the Charon emulator claims, IIRC). The
Alphabook was a bit faster.
Still, once the IPF port is done, we should be able to take any
standard IPF laptop and load OpenVMS IPF on it.
--
Eric Dittman
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