[Info-vax] Is SIMH on a Mac a viable option ?

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In article <00573be7$0$9551$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>Have been pondering migration options/process.
>
>But in the end, I may still need access to VAX/VMS to run All-in-1 or
>access some RMS file I forgot to convert etc etc.
>
>How viable is SIMH on a 64 bit Intel Mac running OS-X ? Is this a large
>project to setup and get working reliably ?
>
>Does the SIMH instance get access to a virtualised ethernet device
>(which could, for instancem pop DECterms onto a remote workstation).
>
>This wouldn't be more for ensuring access to legacy data from time to
>time as opposed to running it continually.
>
>Where do I go to get SimH and is there sufficient documentation for it
>to make it easy to setup ?

Hoff has a blog about building and using SimH on OS X.

http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/922

I recently built SimH (3.8.1) on Ubuntu Linux with network support as a
way to check something on an ancient version of VMS.  I haven't tried a
build of 3.8.1 on OSX but Hoff's blog looks straightforward enough.  The
Ubuntu build presented me with no problems save for trying to understand
a configuration (boot, not build) item to get one feature functioning.

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