[Simh] off-topic basic translator

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Robert,

do you have a cookbook on how to install (and in particular the
networking)?

I am struggling with this on Mac.

It's only a blast from the past (Medical School 30 years ago) but I
would like to run it eventually on a MacPro and perhaps even on
Ubuntu 14.04 (outward facing :-)-O).

greetings, el


On 2015-08-06 15:45, Robert Thomas wrote:
> I’m sure that I’m missing something, but VAX/VMS runs very
> well under SIMH. If you have access to the hobbyist program it is
> straightforward to install VMS and Basic.  We have a number of
> very old Basic programs that haven’t yet been converted to
> Itanium VMS 8.4 that when they are needed (approximately once per
> year), we start SIMH on a PC and boot the “MicroVAX”.  It
> never ceases to amaze us how small and efficient SIMH, the VAX
> emulators, VMS with all of the layered products are when compared
> to the “modern” operating systems.  The performance of the
> emulated MicroVAX on a relatively recent PC is very good.
> 
>  
> 
> When properly configured, the emulated MicroVAX system can become
> part of a cluster (although there is no official support for mixed
> VAX 7.3 and Itanium-64 8.4 clusters).  We are able to use
> DECWindows/MOTIF to connect from PC’s and VMS systems to the
> emulated system.
> 
>  
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Robert F. Thomas
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