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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