On 06/08/2019 16:38, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
The VAX 11/780 definitely had PDP-11 emulation, apparently in the
microcode. I'm kind of guessing the 750 and 730 also had this. As far
as I know, no later machines had hardware (microcode) emulation, and
did it all by software. It didn't take
If I am not mistaken the 8600/50 were the last VAXen to feature PDP-11
emulation. After VMS 3.x the functionality was dropped so it was very short
lived on the 8600.
Ray
On 08/06/2019 03:42 AM, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote:
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On 8/5/19 8:40 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
Now why could
> On Aug 5, 2019, at 11:41 PM, Richard Loken via cctalk
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> On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, Boris Gimbarzevsky wrote:
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>> A mere 579 miles from Kamloops. Unfortunately have to talk to my wife who
>> thinks I have too many computers even though I've given away bulk of my DE
On 8/5/19 11:24 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> On 8/5/19 8:40 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
>> Now why could it not be a nice little PDP 11.
>
> I thought that it could be if it was running emulation software.
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> Or was that more that the VAX-11 could emulate a PDP-11 up to a specific
> versi
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> On 8/5/19 8:40 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
> > Now why could
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, Boris Gimbarzevsky wrote:
A mere 579 miles from Kamloops. Unfortunately have to talk to my wife who
thinks I have too many computers even though I've given away bulk of my DEC
stuff. Never got a chance to play around on Alpha as it came out during my
Mac days.
A mere 1,
Had to give away my Minc system with 2 RLO2
drives and 2 RK03 drives but it did go to a good
home. Have a couple of 11/23 systems left but
have been in storeage long enough that can't fire
them up without first totally going over power
supplies as large electrolytics don't age
well. My wife
On 8/5/19 8:40 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
Now why could it not be a nice little PDP 11.
I thought that it could be if it was running emulation software.
Or was that more that the VAX-11 could emulate a PDP-11 up to a specific
version & hardware combination? (Read: Did this functionality not g
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, ben via cctalk wrote:
Now why could it not be a nice little PDP 11.
Ben.
I once had a pDp11/04 which I let go, it did not seem like much at the
time but now I feel differantly.
--
Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear,
Athabasca, Alberta
On 8/5/2019 6:51 PM, Boris Gimbarzevsky via cctalk wrote:
A mere 579 miles from Kamloops. Unfortunately have to talk to my wife
who thinks I have too many computers even though I've given away bulk of
my DEC stuff. Never got a chance to play around on Alpha as it came out
during my Mac days.
A mere 579 miles from Kamloops. Unfortunately have to talk to my
wife who thinks I have too many computers even though I've given away
bulk of my DEC stuff. Never got a chance to play around on Alpha as
it came out during my Mac days.
I have access to 3 ES45s, a DS15, and an RA8000 in a tall
On 8/5/19 12:50 PM, Mark Linimon via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 10:39:01AM -0600, Richard Loken via cctalk wrote:
Athabasca, Alberta is about 1.000km North of the US Montana border
and 10,000km from nowhere
And 2,248 miles from my house, according to Google Maps :-)
I'll bet it
On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 10:39:01AM -0600, Richard Loken via cctalk wrote:
> Athabasca, Alberta is about 1.000km North of the US Montana border
> and 10,000km from nowhere
And 2,248 miles from my house, according to Google Maps :-)
I'll bet it would be a pretty road trip but I think I'll have to p
> On Aug 5, 2019, at 1:03 PM, Seth Morabito via cctalk
> wrote:
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> I'm tempted, but... I don't know where I'd put it. I'm clean out of room for
> a whole rack :(
Seth,
you just need to think about this objectively.
Alphaserver rack ….. refrigerato
On Mon, Aug 5, 2019, at 9:39 AM, Richard Loken via cctalk wrote:
> I have access to 3 ES45s, a DS15, and an RA8000 in a tall blue Compaq rack
> in Athabasca, Alberta. All the in-service disks were removed but all the
> spares are available. The box also has the fibre switches used the connect
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