[Simh] SIMH VAX on a Kindle

[Mark Pizzolato]

I'm surprised that the NAT(SLiRP) connectivity isn't useful here.

Meanwhile, a while back it was no problem to build the current codebase with the ADK.  I haven't tried in a few years, but there it s no reason it shouldn't still work.

On 1 April 2016 at 15:54, Ray Jewhurst <raywjewhurst at gmail.com<mailto:raywjewhurst at gmail.com>> wrote:
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<mailto: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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Oh, somebody made SIMH a paid app?  That's no fun... In theory it should be easy enough to cross-compile binaries using the Android NDK.  I'll look into it at some point when I have a little bit of time.  Of course networking isn't going to work over wireless, but I suppose there's still plenty to do without it.

-Henry
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