[HECnet] Alpha Emulators for OS X

[Michael Holmes]

Thanks Brian. 

I understand the focus on the commercial side first and then those efforts spinning off benefits to the personal/hobbyist side. 

Just looked like there wasn't any more efforts focusing on Mac OS X, since its not a large commercial platform. 

I'd appreciate if you could pass along the question if there are any continuing efforts for Mac OS X. 

Mike


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On Feb 16, 2013, at 1:13 PM, "Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-" <system at TMESIS.COM> wrote:

Michael Holmes <mholmes10 at hotmail.com> writes: 

Anyone know of a good Alpha emulator that runs on OS X? 

I had Personal Alpha on my WinXP laptop, but haven't touched it since I
got my MacBookPro couple years ago.=20 

Would like to run something like person alpha on OSX, cuz running it on
WinXP under VM Fusion on OSX is kinda slow (and decnet doesn't seem to
be able to talk the real boxes due to all the virtual networking).

I found articles about ES40 project for OSX, but looks like it ran out
of steam.

That is/was Camiel Vanderhoeven.   He's working with Migration Specialties
Inc. (MSI) these days on a commecial Alpha emulation.   I've been actively
working with them (MSI) on a parallel project.   If you want, I could ask
him if he'd mind entertaining question from you about the ES40 project.

I'm running AlphaVM-Free from EmuVM on Linux.   I suspect that one of the
reasons Artem has not ported it to OSX is that he doesn't have anything
running OSX.   You could ask him.   His email is: artem.alimarin at gmail.com

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