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Don't Nurse Old Hardware - Emulate It

Posted by timothy on from the stand-ins dept.

gManZboy writes "Bob Supnik, former team lead for DEC's VAX microprossesor, has an article up on Queue about his Computer History Simulation Project and how emulating old servers may be a better way to keep them running that servicing the physical machines. So how many PDP-11's can you run on a Pentium 4 anyhow?"

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  1. SimH by awx · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Bob's emulation software SimH is a *fantastic* bit of kit. Runs vanilla OpenVMS without modification - VMS doesn't even know it's in a sim until you tell it so when you licence it.

    (re-posting my anon comment)

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