[Simh] SIMH VAX on a Kindle

[Henry Bent]

I ended up with a spare Kindle Touch and didn't need an ebook reader, so I
decided it might make a nice platform for SIMH.  After jailbreaking and
rooting the Kindle, it's just Linux (and X11 for the Kindle interface) so
cross-compiling SIMH was easy.  Networking over wifi obviously doesn't work
(as recently discussed here) but networking over USB does, so it's tethered
to a server for connection sharing.  The performance is pretty good for
such a small device.  It's about equivalent to a real VAX 4000/200, so
approximately 5 VUP.  Certainly more than fast enough for 4.2BSD on a
simulated 11/780!  Next step is to get some sort of console working - right
now there's no way that I have found to display console output on the
screen.

-Henry
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