First new vax in ...30 years? :-)

Zane Healy healyzh at avanthar.com
Mon Jul 5 20:37:01 CDT 2021



> On Jul 5, 2021, at 5:05 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 2:46 AM David Brownlee via cctalk
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>> In case anyone was interested in an FPGA VAX implementation
>> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-vax/2021/07/03/msg003899.html
> 
> I think this is fantastic, but getting the CPU running is only the
> start.  I'll be curious what/how storage emulation goes, and
> networking.  Bonus points for sync serial that can run a DDCMP line to
> vintage machines.
> 
> -ethan

I found myself wondering what it would take to put this, RAM, network, and a SD Card “Disk” on a Q-Bus board. :-)

Zane





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