25 Feb
2002
25 Feb
'02
9:12 a.m.
Until I have a pressing need for 64 bits, I will
probably keep this
box at a low priority, but if any of the PDP-10 emulators would
rather be on a medium to slow-speed 64-bit machine rather than on a
medium to fast 32-bit machine, I might dust it off. I just don't see
where it's anything besides cool for the sake of cool right now.
I've not tried running KLH10 on the AlphaStation 200 4/233 running OpenBSD I
have, but I've run the PDP-10 version of SIMH on it. You really don't want
to do that. It was usable, BUT it was *CONSIDERABLY* slower than a KS10.
I've got a 500Mhz Celeron w/256MB RAM, and a 8MB HD plugged into a bare
MicroATX i810 board sitting on a shelf. It makes a killer PDP-10, and can
run two copies of SIMH (TOPS-10 7.03 and TOPS-20 4.1) at or faster than KS10
speeds. Of course what I really like is the 1Ghz PIII running KLH10 running
TOPS-20 V7.0, especially since I can telnet directly into it :^)
Zane
PS anyone looking for information on emulating DEC systems should see:
http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/decemu.html especially for PDP-10 emulation.