[Info-vax] MicroVAX/VMS newbie, couple of questions

[John E. Malmberg]

Tone007 wrote:
> Fun bunch of methods there, now what did I do with my Alpha
> emulator....
> 
> This system is lucky it's pretty, or I wouldn't be going to all this
> trouble. <a href="http://jungle.net/tone/microvax.jpg">http://
> jungle.net/tone/microvax.jpg</a>

I do not know what speed the DSSI bus is on that model.  It does not go 
through the Q-BUS.

Your Lance Ethernet chipset is fine for running newer versions of VMS.

You should find a slight performance boost from moving to 5.5-2 or later.

You do realize that SIM-H on a newer X86 hardware is both faster and 
probably uses less power than your 2 VUP Microvax 3400.  And it is 
likely that you can get faster disks.

If your Alpha emulator is running VMS, you can set it up as a boot host 
for a local area VMS cluster.  With the current version of VMS, you can 
set the Alpha up to serve disks like an InfoServer with out needing to 
set up a cluster.

I have future plans to use XEN on linux to host a couple of emulators.

I am not sure how big of a x86 system running Linux is needed to be 
faster than my VAX 4000 Model 500.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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