[Info-vax] OSes

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Sunday, 17 January 2016 19:58:06 UTC, Paul Hardy  wrote:
> Bill Cunningham <nospam at nspam.invalid> wrote:
> >  ... I am still not getting how to setup simh to allow X. Would 
> > it involve a set console command? As you have said simh doesn't do windows. 
> > X or decwindows that is. Others are appearing to say ssh can't be used here. 
> > I was understanding it could. I'm rather confused here now.
> 
> SIMH emulates hardware. X is not hardware. It is a software protocol for
> sending graphics. SIMH does emulate Ethernet hardware which can transport
> the X protocol from an emulated VAX to a network-connected PC running X.
> Typically now this is a Linux PC (which knows X) or a Windows PC running
> Cygwin or MobaXterm. 
> 
> I use a Windows 10 PC running Cygwin to display X (DECWindows/Motif)
> sessions coming from a SIMH emulated VAX running VMS. SIMH is actually
> running on  a network-connected Raspberry Pi running Raspbian. 
> 
> -- 
> Paul at the paulhardy.net domain

File under "did you know..."

Might not be immediately relevant here, but there are flavours of
SIMH/VAX around that can emulate VAXstation-class graphics, using
the graphics hardware and software available on the SIMH host.

In principle this might make the picture simpler. Or more complicated.
It probably removes the remote graphics display capability.

Have a lot of fun.