[HECnet] SIMH on Raspberry Pi

[Vern Brownell]

Hi Fred,

I   ve been running SIMH with OpenVMS 7.3 on a Pi for over a year now and it has been rock solid.   Just checked with SH SYS, it   s been up for 224 days straight with a fair amount of daily activity and no noticeable degradation in performance.     Runs more reliably than my AXP hardware.     FWIW YMMV.

And 8GB SD cards are now about $5 on AMZN. 

Best of luck,

Vern


On Jun 3, 2014, at 12:38 PM, Fred <fcoffey at misernet.net> wrote:

Hi all,

For those of you who are running SIMH on Raspberry Pi, how are you getting around the fact that lots of writes on your SD card will eventually trash it?   I am considering moving my VAX instance to my Raspi, but didn't want to eat an SD card ... ;)

Is it as simple as perhaps mounting the VAX .dsk via NFS and letting SIMH use that, instead of the card?

Thanks,

Fred

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