[rescue] VAX on a cell phone

Ian Finder ian.finder at gmail.com
Wed Aug 11 16:11:59 CDT 2010


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?

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-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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