On 06/08/2019 16:38, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
The VAX 11/780 definitely had PDP-11 emulation, apparently in the
microcode. I'm kind of guessing the 750 and 730 also had this. As far
as I know, no later machines had hardware (microcode) emulation, and
did it all by software. It didn't take
If I am not mistaken the 8600/50 were the last VAXen to feature PDP-11
emulation. After VMS 3.x the functionality was dropped so it was very short
lived on the 8600.
Ray
On 08/06/2019 03:42 AM, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote:
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On 8/5/19 8:40 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
Now why could
> On Aug 5, 2019, at 11:41 PM, Richard Loken via cctalk
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> On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, Boris Gimbarzevsky wrote:
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>> A mere 579 miles from Kamloops. Unfortunately have to talk to my wife who
>> thinks I have too many computers even though I've given away bulk of my
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> On 8/5/19 8:40 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
> > Now why could
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, Boris Gimbarzevsky wrote:
A mere 579 miles from Kamloops. Unfortunately have to talk to my wife who
thinks I have too many computers even though I've given away bulk of my DEC
stuff. Never got a chance to play around on Alpha as it came out during my
Mac days.
A mere
Had to give away my Minc system with 2 RLO2
drives and 2 RK03 drives but it did go to a good
home. Have a couple of 11/23 systems left but
have been in storeage long enough that can't fire
them up without first totally going over power
supplies as large electrolytics don't age
well. My
On 8/5/19 8:40 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
Now why could it not be a nice little PDP 11.
I thought that it could be if it was running emulation software.
Or was that more that the VAX-11 could emulate a PDP-11 up to a specific
version & hardware combination? (Read: Did this functionality not
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, ben via cctalk wrote:
Now why could it not be a nice little PDP 11.
Ben.
I once had a pDp11/04 which I let go, it did not seem like much at the
time but now I feel differantly.
--
Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear,
Athabasca, Alberta
On 8/5/2019 6:51 PM, Boris Gimbarzevsky via cctalk wrote:
A mere 579 miles from Kamloops. Unfortunately have to talk to my wife
who thinks I have too many computers even though I've given away bulk of
my DEC stuff. Never got a chance to play around on Alpha as it came out
during my Mac days.
A mere 579 miles from Kamloops. Unfortunately have to talk to my
wife who thinks I have too many computers even though I've given away
bulk of my DEC stuff. Never got a chance to play around on Alpha as
it came out during my Mac days.
I have access to 3 ES45s, a DS15, and an RA8000 in a
On 8/5/19 12:50 PM, Mark Linimon via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 10:39:01AM -0600, Richard Loken via cctalk wrote:
Athabasca, Alberta is about 1.000km North of the US Montana border
and 10,000km from nowhere
And 2,248 miles from my house, according to Google Maps :-)
I'll bet it
On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 10:39:01AM -0600, Richard Loken via cctalk wrote:
> Athabasca, Alberta is about 1.000km North of the US Montana border
> and 10,000km from nowhere
And 2,248 miles from my house, according to Google Maps :-)
I'll bet it would be a pretty road trip but I think I'll have to
> On Aug 5, 2019, at 1:03 PM, Seth Morabito via cctalk
> wrote:
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> I'm tempted, but... I don't know where I'd put it. I'm clean out of room for
> a whole rack :(
Seth,
you just need to think about this objectively.
Alphaserver rack …..
On Mon, Aug 5, 2019, at 9:39 AM, Richard Loken via cctalk wrote:
> I have access to 3 ES45s, a DS15, and an RA8000 in a tall blue Compaq rack
> in Athabasca, Alberta. All the in-service disks were removed but all the
> spares are available. The box also has the fibre switches used the connect
I have access to 3 ES45s, a DS15, and an RA8000 in a tall blue Compaq rack
in Athabasca, Alberta. All the in-service disks were removed but all the
spares are available. The box also has the fibre switches used the connect
the RA8000 to the servers and the cables, much of the paper
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