[Info-vax] Alpha emulator for OSX

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Thu Feb 4 01:44:26 EST 2016


On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 21:32:52 -0600
"Craig A. Berry via Info-vax" <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:

> 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.

What commercial Alpha emulators run on anything but Windows and 64-bit
Linux?

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