[Simh] minimal hardware for VAX

John Floren slawmaster at gmail.com
Sun Nov 12 15:46:22 EST 2006


On 11/6/06, John Floren <slawmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody
> I'm just wondering what kind of hardware is the minimal recommended
> system to run the VAX simulator and VMS. I've got an Ultra 1 (170 Mhz
> or so, 64 MB of RAM, Solaris) sitting here, but I don't think it could
> handle it (also, does Solaris do ethernet emulation?).
> Thanks in advance
>

Revisiting this topic (and replying to myself), what would you say
about the VAX sim running VMS on a PIII/300 Mhz, 385 MB RAM (approx,
can't remember exact number), running Slackware Linux? It would mean
giving up my Plan 9 box, but that's okay ;-)


John Floren
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