14 Apr
2013
14 Apr
'13
3:42 p.m.
On Apr 14, 2013, at 2:47 PM, Mouse <mouse at rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
One is hardware compatability. If you have a device
whose host
interface consists of some half-dozen Unibus slots with custom
backplane wiring (I used such a thing back in the '80s), emulators, in
general, just don't cut it. (In principle there's no reason they
couldn't. But if anyone makes a bridge allowing use of Qbus - or
Unibus, or Sbus, or etc - hardware on a more modern system, I really
want to know about it....)
Oh, that absolutely exists, pretty much for that exact purpose.
http://www.comwaretech.com/PDP-11/DEC-PDP-11-emulator.html
Probably expensive as hell, but it's meant for people who need
the existing hardware to work because the cost or other risk
of engineering a replacement system is even greater.
- Dave