Thanks for the information Dave! I’m glad to hear it’s still being worked on. I can well imagine what a pain the firmware is, especially if you’re trying to support both the SRM and ARC firmware. I wish I could help. From my standpoint, getting SIMH to boot OpenVMS would be a big deal.
Are you working to support a specific platform? I’m curious since not every system supports SRM or ARC, and many of the PCI boards were only supported by Windows NT. Would you like me to put a note on the webpage for anyone interested in helping to contact you via the SIMH mailing list? Zane > On Feb 2, 2018, at 10:01 AM, Hittner, David T [US] (MS) > <david.hitt...@ngc.com> wrote: > > Well, Migration Specialties is where the developer of ES40 went, anyway. :-) > > I'm working on the SIMH Alpha simulator. It is quite a complex beast, where > the firmware required to power up the system to the chevrons (>>>) is an > operating system of small Linux complexity even before you can try to boot > OpenVMS, TRU64 or WinNT. I think the simulation currently runs some 56 > billion instructions before encountering a missing hardware simulation, and > it's nowhere near the chevrons - and hasn't even built the OS interface block > or the FW-level device tables yet. > > If anyone would like to help with the Alpha development, I wouldn't say no. > It takes a long time to figure what the RISC firmware is trying to > accomplish. :-) > > Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Vorländer, > Martin > Sent: Friday, February 2, 2018 3:16 AM > To: 'SIMH' <simh@trailing-edge.com> > Subject: EXT :Re: [Simh] DEC Alpha Emulation > > Zane, > > just had a look at your Alpha page, and noticed that you missed an emulator: > FreeAXP / Avanti from Migration Specialties, > http://www.migrationspecialties.com/ > This is where the ES40 emulator went, AFAIK. > > cu, > Martin > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] Im Auftrag von Zane Healy > Gesendet: Freitag, 2. Februar 2018 05:56 > An: SIMH <simh@trailing-edge.com> > Betreff: [Simh] DEC Alpha Emulation > > I'm in the process of slowly updating my DEC Emulation website, which has > been largely stagnant since 2007. The first page I'm spending some > significant time on is the DEC Alpha page, as I'm curious to see what the > current options are. In reviewing things, I notice that Alpha emulation was > worked on at some point for SIMH (probably around 2006). What is the current > state of that work? I had a quick google, and the most popular hit seems to > be mirrored copies of my site. > > http://www.avanthar.com/healyzh/decemulation/Alpha.html > > Thanks, > Zane > > > > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
