On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:53 AM, DELAFOSSE, Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote: > Markus > > You already have a pseudo VAXstation with "off the shelf" tools > You only need > - Simh > - an X11 emulator (Xming or Cygwin in the Windows world) > That's it. You can even have Simh AND X11 running on the same machine > With a brand new PC, you will outperform any VAXstation (Except perhaps the > VAXstation 8000) > Runnig a VAXstation on a laptop is great
There's various problems with that, though. It requires that the emulated VAX be set up with TCP/IP, which requires that Networking be set up, which requires (usually) either a hardwired ethernet connection or a complicate setup inside a VM. Additionally, a setup like that can't handle certain things like Display PostScript which were built into some versions of DECWindows but which aren't supported by any modern X servers. Emulating a graphics card which can be connected to by VNC would solve all those problems. I actually had a similar idea a while ago, but given my limted coding skills, was unable to do anything about it. Mike _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
