[Info-vax] VMS 5.0

[Paul Sture]

On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:18:25 -0800, John Wallace wrote:

> Bill Pechter wrote:
>>
>> My slow obsolete android 2.x tablet's probably got a 360 worth of power
>> in it. 8-).
>>
>
> You know you can get SIMH for Android, right? One of the ways to get
> it without building it yourself is in the Marketplace where it comes
> bundled with a paid-for Telnet app. You then need a way of getting the
> disk image on to the phone (e.g. as a file from another SIMH
> elsewhere?).
>
> Who wants to be first to post a report of how well it runs, i.e. a
> Software Performance Report for VMS on a phone?

Hmm, I've got a router running DD-WRT here. It has a USB port for 
storage, so theoretically SIMH could run on the beast.  Might be short of 
memory to run SIMH itself, but an older version of VMS wouldn't be a 
problem.


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