> On Mar 29, 2018, at 7:00 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > Then, in 1986, I bought a MicroVAX-II CPU board from a broker, and a bunch of > 3rd party peripherals, and made a copy of VMS 4.7 (Might have used something > earlier for a time.) > I was in 7th heaven! A REAL computer at LAST!
And now a Raspberry Pi running SIMH can emulate a faster VAX system than that MicroVAX II. I’m slowly getting my VMS cluster back up and running, but through emulation. My goal is to power down my Alpha, except when I need a couple programs that won’t run on a VAX. My fastest VAX (beating my VAXstation 4000/60) is SIMH running on an ESXI server. Zane
