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The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
> Wonderful! best use for a Pi yet! Does it run actual VMS?

Yes, I run VMS 7.3 which is still available under a hobbyist licence from
HPE, along with downloads of install media, and docs. The emulation of SimH
is bit perfect - I took a bit by bit copy of a complete 25 year old VAX
disk into a single file on the Pi, point SIMH at it and say Boot, and I
have a running VMS system. Or you can build your own VAX from scratch using
the install media.

What’s more, I can run this as boot node of a VMScluster, and boot other
Pis as diskless satellites across a modern Ethernet network, sharing a
common filesystem with cluster-wide file locking etc. SIMH will even
emulate the graphics of a VAXstation, running X and Motif window system.

An amazing piece of software created by Bob Supnik and enhanced by others
as open source.


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Paul at the paulhardy.net domain

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