[HECnet] Alpha emulation

[John H. Reinhardt]

Thanks.   That's what I'd seen.   The other probable show stopper for me is that it only runs under Windows.   If I bought the emulator, then I'd have to also buy a Windows license to run it.   :(   But nobody seems to have a working Alpha emulator that runs under Linux.   At least one without limitations that are annoying.   The CHARON   -AXP/ES40 for Linux NCE needs to be manually re-started every 30 days and it only allows 2 emulated scsi disks.   I'm not even sure it's current. The documentation page says the binary expires on 12-31-2010 so apparently hasn't been updated in a while.


Whoa! new surprise.   I logged into the Stromasys site to look at the downloads and the ES40 emulator has been retired!   No longer available.   You have your choice of a MicroVAX 3600/3900, DEC3000-400, AlphaServer 400 or AlphaServer DS10.   The DS10 is Windows 64-bit XP/7 only.   The DEC3000-400 is Windows 32-bit XP only.   MicroVAX is Windows 32-bit, Linux 32-bit and ESXi (VMWare) and the AS400 is Windows 64-bit, Linux 64-bit and ESXi.   What a motley assortment of supported hosts - none of which are what I'm looking for. :(

Here's the link although you'll probably have to create an account to see it.   http://www.stromasys.ch/downloads/downloads-freeware/


   John H. Reinhardt

On 4/5/12 4:13 AM, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Here's the SPD:  http://www.migrationspecialties.com/pdf/Avanti_SPD.pdf

Sampsa


On 5 Apr 2012, at 11:07, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
I looked on the Migration Specialties web site and found FreeAXP and Avanti but no mention of a DS10 emulation.   Can you be more specific on where you found this?   Both the FreeAXP and Avanti emulators are EV4 (AlphaServer 400) emulation.   Maybe in this case the chip version doesn't really matter but it would be nice to have something a little more modern.

For a DS10 class emulator with up to 3GB of memory and   lots of disk space I'd go up to $100 US.   Otherwise I'm just as happy to run my DS20E or XP1000.

  John H. Reinhardt



On 4/4/12 5:21 PM, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Guys,

I've just been talking to the guys who make the FreeAXP product about possible hobbyist pricing for their DS10 and other commercial products - they seemed to like what we're doing with HECnet and asked what I thought was a fair price for a DS10 emulator, so I figured I'd ask here.

Basically, I think we can get a better deal if a bunch of us buy a copy. Their list price for the DS10 version is USD 6,000 which of course is crazy as we can get a lot of hardware for that kind of money.

So I guess my questions are these:

1. How many of you are interested in a commercial Alpha emulator at hobbyist pricing?
2. What are we willing to pay for say an emulated DS10?

Sampsa

PS: The chap mentioned that hecnet.eu has been down for a while (so he's clearly aware of us) - any ideas when/if it's coming back up?