2 Feb
2014
2 Feb
'14
8:56 a.m.
On Feb 1, 2014, at 7:27 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
I guess you might be able to run some of the ancient
Pathworks stuff
for Windows under WINE, Crossover or just a VirtualBox VM with a copy
of Windows in it... But you'll need to run a copy of Windows old
enough that it understands DECnet, and I have no clue if VBox can pass
DECnet traffic out the host's Ethernet port - it only really expects
to handle TCP/IP!
FWIW, I have WfWg 3.11, Win95 OSR2, Win98SE, WinME & Win2K all running
successfully under VBox. It's pretty versatile. XP is the oldest
version on which the Extensions work, though, so no shared drives,
clipboard, screen-resizing, accelerate graphics or anything.
At that point I'd be inclined to look at emulating a PDP-11 on my Mac and running
RSX-11M+ to get DECnet. That or I just fire up the Alpha when I want to play with the VAX
from my office. I don't know that I have the necessary Pathworks software.
Zane
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