[HECnet] AXPBox

[Zane Healy]

The key thing is the progress this represents.  The fact that you got it running at all would seem to put it ahead of Jonathan D. Belanger’s DECaxp fork.  I believe some folks had gotten ES40 to sort of boot, but I don’t think they got as far as any networking.  AXPbox represents a very important path forward for the OpenVMS Hobbyist community, and I wish the folks working on it nothing but the best!

In all fairness, you shouldn’t expect good performance from any Raspberry Pi that’s being used to emulate a DEC Alpha.  The commercial Alpha emulators really expect you to be running on a high-end system.

The DEC Alpha page on my DEC Emulation website has just been updated to reflect this news.
http://www.avanthar.com/healyzh/decemulation/Alpha.html

If anyone has any information on Jonathan D. Belanger’s DECaxp fork, I’d be interested.

Zane



> On Nov 5, 2020, at 1:02 PM, Keith Halewood <Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org> wrote:
> 
> It seems quite unstable in places.... and very slow.
> I got it running on a raspberry Pi 4 with the 64bit OS.
> 
>> On 5 Nov 2020, at 20:32, Supratim Sanyal <supratim at riseup.net> wrote:
>> 
>>  Not sure if you guys knew about this emulator forked off ES40, but looks promising enough.
>> 
>> https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Installing_OpenVMS_8.4_Alpha_in_AXPbox_with_networking.html <https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Installing_OpenVMS_8.4_Alpha_in_AXPbox_with_networking.html>
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