[Info-vax] New free Alpha emulator - AlphaVM-free

[John Wallace]

On May 8, 2:20 pm, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <2alg98-1pn.... at nntp.local.net>, Freedom on the Oceans <alex.bu... at munted.org.uk> writes:
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> >On Sat, 2011-05-07 at 15:33 +0000, VAXm... at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> >> In article <4dc562a3$0$81474$e4fe5... at news.xs4all.nl>, MG
> >> <marcog... at SPAMxs4all.nl> writes:
> >> >On 6-5-2011 22:04, artem wrote:
> >> >> Just releaseed a new version 1.0.3. Main changes are:
> >> >> - bug fixes
> >> >> - added support of Windows XP (it was win7, no linux yet, sorry)
> >> >> - added support of DS10 abd ES40 systems (it was DS20).
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> >> >> Please checkhttp://emuvm.com.
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> >> >This is definitely one of the best AXP emulators yet!  I'm very
> >> >grateful, thank you very much.
> >>=20
> >> It'll never be any good as long as it only runs on WEENDOZE.=20
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> >It's very hard to port between different architectures, especially on
> >GUIs. He can look at a rewrite with a cross-platform GUI kit, it would
> >make his life a lot easier.
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> What's GUI about an Alpha emulator?  I remember running SimH VAX emulation
> on Linux and there wasn't anything GUI about it as I recall.
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"What's GUI about an Alpha emulator? "

Good question. As I haven't seen the specific product under discussion
in this thread, I don't know if it has been (mis-)designed to require
the use of a GUI, so I can only make general comments about platform
independence (a subject close to my heart since, oh, the mid 1980s).

You'd be amazed (or perhaps you might not) about what is considered
important by today's PHBs and certified Microsoft-dependent folk (and
indeed not just today's but those of ten years ago). E.g. in today's
software development/IDE world, home grown CLI-script-driven tools
often need to look as though they integrate with (say) Eclipse, even
though the effort spent in developing the pointy clicky integration
may never return a "profit" on that effort. This at roughly the same
time as the Windows people finally realise that Windows might be
better if it had a proper scripting language (PowerShell? Proper
scripting language?).