[HECnet] CHARON is back up...

[Zane H. Healy]

At 2:26 PM +0000 1/5/10, Mark Wickens wrote:
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 06:24 -0800, Bob Armstrong wrote:
>Anyway it seems that whenever I run Personal Alpha any Simh machines I
>have running completely pause until I shutdown the Alpha simulator has
>anyone else had this problem ?

    Isn't Personal Alpha a version of the Charon-AXP emulator?   I've never
used Personal Alpha, but I am using the free version of Charon-AXP and I can
tell you that, unlike simh, it has no OpenVMS idle detection.   Charon will
always use 100% of whatever CPU(s) it's running on, regardless of what the
emulated system is doing.   That makes it difficult to run Charon
concurrently with other simulators unless you can afford to dedicate
separate CPUs to each one.

Bob

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... and significantly bumps up your electricity bill to boot.

How does it perform on something like an Atom processor?   I've been thinking about building a system with an Atom 330 CPU for SIMH, KLH10 and E11.

Zane



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