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[Zane Healy]

> On Mar 7, 2019, at 7:38 AM, allison <allisonportable at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Been on hecnet list for years going back to DSL and early Fiber connect.
> Then Verizon decided maybe two years ago to stop being a email
> provider and I jumped to Gmail.  That dropped me off the list, things
> got busy and have finally slowed.  Finally remembered to wake up
> majordomo.

That would explain why I thought you were here already.

> Large collection of real machines and maybe considering putting a
> SIMH-VAX on a Asus Tinkerboard.  Haven't played with SIMH as I have
> the real ones but even the little 3100s use a bit of power.

I finally gave in a little over a year ago, and started using SIMH-VAX, in part as part of a plan to be able to get VMS back up and running here at home, without the power requirements of my XP1000/667.  End result, for the first time in about 18 years I have a cluster running again at home, but the XP1000 is still running most of the time. :-)  I find SIMH to be quite nice, and the instance running on my i7 ESXI server is the fastest VAX I have.  The second fastest is my DECnet area router a VAXstation 4000/60 (which I still need to virtualize).

I’d have probably made better progress on virtualizing my VMS setup, if I hadn’t gotten distracted by Multics running on the DPS-8/M emulator.  It may not be GCOS-8, but at least it’s running on a DPS-8! :-)  It definitely amuses me to have a DPS-8 the size if a deck of cards (Raspberry Pi 3+).

Zane