[Info-vax] Alpha emulator for OSX

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-02-04 03:04:27 +0000, Alex Rubens said:

> On Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 5:26:32 PM UTC-5, Sum1 wrote:
>> Does anyone have first-hand experience of running an Alpha emulator on 
>> OSX.  Not in a virtual machine on OSX using VMware or Parallels, but 
>> something that runs natively on OSX?
>> 
>> And if you do, which emulator is it, any problems configuring and 
>> running...I am after the information for hobbyist use, a DS10L is dying 
>> and I will probably need to move down the emulation path.
> 
> Think about what you're saying, an Alpha emulator is virtualization.  
> Native on OSX, do you mean running bootcamp on your mac? In that case, 
> VSI hasn't gotten VMS ported to x86-64 yet.

Huh.   What Sum1 was asking for makes sense to me.

Nothing to do with bootcamp, nor with the VSI port of OpenVMS to x86-64.

Sum1 is looking for an Alpha emulator that runs on OS X.   Something 
akin to the VAX emulation available in SIMH, but for Alpha emulation — 
the SIMH emulator runs on OS X.   Windows and Linux are the common 
choices for the available emulators.   Now Windows or Linux — as Sum1 
states — could be used within a virtualization solution such as VMware 
or Parallels operating with OS X — but that's not the requested native 
solution.

Unfortunately, I've not encountered an Alpha emulator that supports OS 
X natively.



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