[Simh] minimal hardware for VAX

[Villy Madsen]

If I had to make a guess, then I would guess that you would have the equivalent
of an 11/750....

Villy 

-----Original Message-----
From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On
Behalf Of John Floren
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 13:46
To: simh at trailing-edge.com
Subject: Re: [Simh] minimal hardware for VAX

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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