[HECnet] Hoping to join HECnet

[Dave McGuire]

On 06/24/2018 01:22 AM, Zane Healy wrote:
>>> But yes, there is no point in simulating a star coupler, since it's just
>>> a passive device anyhow. And HSC emulation only needs to talk the CI
>>> protocol and act as (T)MSCP server side. No point, or need, to emulate
>>> an actual HSC and run CRONIC on it.
>>
>>  About as much point as running VMS under emulation.  I have real HSCs
>> here connecting real hardware, but I'd surely run an emulated HSC
>> connecting emulated hardware if it were available.  I'd even be quite
>> excited about it.
> 
> I don’t know Dave, I never thought I’d see the day when I’d be using emulation as my primary platform, but I am for both VAX and PDP-11 now.  I’m even looking into moving my Compaq XP1000/667 over to an emulator.  Most of the data and some of the applications are now on my VAXcluster, which makes good backups easier.  PDXVAX is still a VAXstation 4000, but will be moving to SIMH soon.  That would have happened this weekend most likely, except my internet is down, so I can’t get the OS for the host system.

  Zane, I'm not saying that I don't run any emulators; I run emulators
all the time.

  But I also have about a hundred (possibly over a hundred) real
physical VAXen and PDP-11s here, I adore every one of them, and I run a
public museum built around some of them (among other things).

  Emulators will replace physical computers for me when the physical
computers no longer run (and I can no longer repair them), and then,
only for actually running software.

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA