[Info-vax] Alpha emulator for OSX

[Craig A. Berry]

On 2/3/16 9:04 PM, Alex Rubens wrote:
> 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.

I'm pretty sure he means an Alpha emulator that runs on OS X. As opposed
to targeting Windows or Linux (or BSD) as all of the commercial
emulators do. I would be interested in such a thing too, but I don't
think there are any. There is the unfinished ES40 emulator on
SourceForge, which I think some commercial emulators may have used as
their starting point, but my impression is that's more of an emulator
construction kit with parts missing.

When OpenVMS x64 is running under VirtualBox on whatever x64 machine one
has handy, that will be very nice, but yes, it's a year or three away.