[Simh] SIMH VAX on a Kindle

[Ray Jewhurst]

I used to use the SIMH for the Android (which cost me about $13) but now
that I have Lollipop.  It doesn't work anymore.  I know I could hack my
tablet but it's connected through a Cell service provider so I'd rather
not.  I know the terminal I used Better Terminal Emulator Pro which was
required for the port.

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Henry Bent <henry.r.bent at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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