[rescue] VAX on a cell phone

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Wednesday, August 11, 2010, Ian Finder wrote:
> What I'm gonna try to do when I get to the lab is netboot my uVAX
> from a Moto Droid running simh... Flip it all around.
> 
> I take it this version has network support?

No network support for now.  libpcap support isn't trivial (though it 
probably is possible) on Android.

Pat

> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:09 PM, John Francini <francini at mac.com> 
wrote:
> > 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
> >> 
> >> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> >> 
> >> 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-fo
> >> r- 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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