[Simh] SIMH VAX on a Kindle

[Henry Bent]

Oh, I hadn't thought to try NAT.  I'll give it a shot.

-Henry

On 1 April 2016 at 16:10, Mark Pizzolato <Mark at infocomm.com> wrote:

> 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> 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>
>> 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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