In the past my usage of simh has been limited primarily to the PDP-11, and though I've also used it for the PDP-10 emulation. Now I find myself looking for a low-power alternative to my existing systems (Compaq XP1000/667 and VAXstation 4000/60).
In taking a hard look at my actual requirements I've come to realize that realistically all I need is one system running a few select tools, most of which are available on the VAX, in fact those that aren't, I can live without. So I find myself wondering how well SIMH could do to serve my needs. My idea is to host it on something like an Intel Dual-Core D510 1.66Ghz Atom board. Does anyone happen to know what kind of performance this would give? How many VUPS would such a setup offer? How well does the CPU throttleing work, especially if running something like the WASD webserver? I assume that Volume Shadowing is supported, so that I can place disk images on seperate physical hard drives and turn on shadowing? What about clustering with real physical VMS systems if I desire it? How large of virtual disks does SIMH support? Does will everything I'm looking for work under OpenBSD, or do I need to run Linux? Does SIMH support encrypted virtual disks? I guess that is enough questions for now. :-) Zane _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
