SIMH on portable machines (was Re: [Simh] Re: Welcome to the 'Simh' mailing list)

[Kevin Handy]

ethan.dicks at icecube.wisc.edu wrote:

>>A.Bucher at alcatel.de wrote:
>>Small (simh)Vax is nice too!  I have a friend (slowly) running simh on a
>>HP/Compaq Handheld iPaq H5500 with Familiar Linux Distro --  about 85%
>>the speed of 11/750.  It is scary to watch VMS boot on something about
>>the size of a remote control for my television.
>>    
>>
>
>I might be interested in that in the future (I might be getting some
>flavor of PocketPC later this year)... what are the I/O options?  I take
>it if one is on a wireless network or docked, one can telnet into SIMH and
>log into the VAX?
>
>85% of an 11/750 sounds like faster than 11/730 or MicroVAX-I speeds
>(0.3-0.4 VUPs, where an 11/750 is nominally 0.6 VUPs)... fast enough... we
>used to put a dozen users on an 11/730 for office work (MASS-11, VMS'
>MAIL...)  Of course, our expectations were somewhat low, then (c. 1983)
>
>-ethan
>  
>
Amusing to think up updating a data center from a large pile of
Vax'n to a small pile of Handhelds. As visitors walk past
the "Large Glass Window" (didn't everyone have one of these
in the past), they can see a large room with numerous
racks filled with assorted communucation equipment, power,
magtape drives, etc.; all surrounding a small table with a  dozen
PDA's and an ink-jet printer.