[Simh] on Android [Was: (no subject)]

[Pontus Pihlgren]

It's a good start :)

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:55:07AM -0400, Henry Bent wrote:
> I did a proof of concept build a while back using the Android NDK. It
> required manually compiling libpcap for networking support but as I recall
> it was fully functional. I was able to bring up 4.2BSD on a vax780 but disk
> access was painfully slow. I was running as root so I have no idea how well
> it would run on a non-rooted phone. So it's certainly possible but there
> are bugs to be worked out.
> 
> -Henry
> 
> On Sep 10, 2016 6:33 AM, "Pontus Pihlgren" <pontus at update.uu.se> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 09:19:15AM -0700, Mark Pizzolato wrote:
> > >
> > > A few years back, I added Android build support to the simh
> > > makefile in the github master branch.  I haven't tried building for
> > > Android since shortly after that time.  I'd appreciate any feedback
> > > from anyone who tries now.
> > >
> >
> > I do Android develpoment for a living. Not so much apps and guis but things
> > behind the scenes.
> >
> > I considered doing a (free) simh port as an exercise. If there is
> > significant interrest it might spur me to actually do it.
> >
> > /P
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