[Simh] OPEN VMS Tech Journal article on VAX emulation

[Rich Alderson]

> Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 11:45:44 -0600
> From: Villy Madsen <Villy.Madsen at shaw.ca>

> Interesting article from the OPENVMS Technical Journal

> The Development of a High-Performance VAX 6000 Emulator

Charon-VAX is very interesting because it is an actively supported platform for
OpenVMS, so that if you want to continue to run the OS without trying to main-
tain VAX hardware, it is certainly the way to go.

Unlike SimH, of course, it's dedicated to a single architecture and tries to be
the very best emulation of that architecture, as a commercial venture, rather
than being a platform for experimentation with a number of architectures.  In
this it is similar to the PDP-10 emulator KLH10, which for a while was offered
as a commercial product by Digital (as an Alpha migration tool, forsooth).

                                                                Rich Alderson