[Simh] Alpha emulator

[Villy Madsen]

Yes ago - when I was first introduced to the dark side (windoze) we had a server crash because of a problem in a video adapter driver.  At the time I questioned why anyone would want to add that sort of complexity to a server...

I now understand why!!  It's to make the life of IT Anachronists  more difficult!!

Villy

----- Original Message -----
From: bsupnik at comcast.net
Date: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:13 am
Subject: [Simh] Alpha emulator

> There's a complete Alpha CPU emulator for SimH, and has been for 
> some time.  It models an EV-56 at the hardware level and should be 
> able to run PALcode/firmware images.
> 
> That said, there's no system behind it, and I don't have the time 
> to write one.  Even the simplest EV-56 system (like the 500au 
> workstation) requires emulation of the system glue chip, the PCI 
> bus, various PCI peripherals, and possibly graphics: so as a 
> minimum, the Pyxis chip, the ISP SCSI adapter, the 21040 Ethernet 
> adapter, a graphics adapter, and the usual complement of PC cruft 
> (keyboard, mouse, floppy, timers, etc).
> 
> /Bob Supnik
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