[rescue] VAX on a cell phone

John Francini francini at mac.com
Wed Aug 11 16:09:08 CDT 2010


Now what would be MORE interesting would be to boot VMS on this rather  
than BSD 4.3...

(old-time DECcie speaking here...)

John


On 11 Aug 2010, at 16:37, Patrick Finnegan wrote:

> The list has been quiet, and I figure some people here might be
> interested...
>
> Pat
>
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> Subject: VAX on a cell phone
> Date: Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 13:17:10
> From: Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer-refuge.org>
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
> On Wednesday, August 11, 2010, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
>> And while we are at it: quite a few _cellphones_ these days have more
>> computing power than that. For a cellphone ...
>
> In that vein, I have spent some time over the past week or so  
> setting up
> my cell phone (an HTC Evo running Android) to emulate a VAX by running
> SIMH.
>
> http://worldofvax.blogspot.com/2010/08/compiling-simh-emulators-for-
> android.html
>
> And then using a VT125 for its console:
>
> http://worldofvax.blogspot.com/2010/08/htc-evo-and-vt125.html
>
> Enjoy the insanity!
>
> Pat
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