[HECnet] Who's emulating?

[Marc Chametzky]

The recent downtime thread has sparked much discussion about a variety of DEC (and perhaps some Compaq) hardware, but who among us is living in HECnet lives in software?

I have two systems nominally connected to HECnet, both emulated. I have the SIMH VAX emulator running VMS (DUSTY) and I have Mark Crispin's Panda system running TOPS-20 (CALHAN). Both of these are running as part of virtual Unix systems (one Linux, one Solaris) on a single ESXi box.

I've also played with a couple Alpha emulators from Stromasys (CHARON-AXP on Windows and CHARON-AXP NCE on Linux), but I've not set up   a more permanent virtual Alpha system.

I'd set up a virtual PDP-11 to play with as well, perhaps running RSTS/E, but it's been far too long since I've used a PDP-11 to remember how to set it up and maintain it. Same thing with VM/370 or z/VM on Hercules. It's sad how much I've forgotten over the years.

--Marc