[Simh] Fastest platform for SIMH/VAX

[Bruce Claremont]

It is straight forward.  The faster the host platform, the faster the emulator.  A high quality SSD will help as well.  The cheaper SSDs are not so good.  Using an SSD as a host boot device provides the best overall improvement.

At 04:41 AM 10/28/2012, Mark Wickens wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>I was wondering if anyone had done any performance testing on SIMH? I'm specifically interested in the VAX platform. I'm presuming that a top of the range Core i7 is going to be pretty hard to beat? Is it best run on an SSD card for IO performance?
>
>Regards, Mark.
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