[Simh] Questions regarding future simulator development

[Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm]

On Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Gérard Calliet wrote:
> Le 11/04/2013 19:37, Michael Mondy a écrit :
> > I guess there are two types of questions when talking about ways to
> > extend or improve SimH.  What would be useful to current users?
> > What would be useful to current developers?  What would be useful for
> > new users?  What would be useful for new developers.  Ok, that's
> > four...
> Hello,
> 
> I'm just a new user. For me simh is the better way to give to VMS customers
> the opportunity of going on with VMS.
> 
> I explain : commercial emulators all use Windows, so customers who have a
> lot of software on alpha/ia64 OpenVMS, and some on VAX/VMS buy these
> WIndows emulators, buy Intel hardware, and think about migrating all to
> Windows. Windows as a convergence platform. Not so good.
> With simh (vax) on OpenVMS / ia64 there is only one platform, and only one
> OS. OpenVMS as a convergence platform. Better.
> 
> It would be interesting to have improvements on specific implementations
> on OpenVMS : better use oh io system, better network integration...

It is not clear what you are asking for here.  Do you want to run a VAX simulator on a OpenVMS ia64 host?

What do you mean by 'io system" and 'network integration'.  Please be more specific.

Thanks

- Mark Pizzolato