[Info-vax] Some questions on software for VMS 7.3 VAX

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On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:19:22 +0100
Johnny Billquist via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:

> On 2016-01-27 17:45, lists at openmailbox.org wrote:
> > Actually I have a few boxes running and I forgot I was running SIMH on
> > one of my slowest ones... I'll post the timings later but they're a lot
> > worse than what you're seeing. I'll try testing on a faster box.
> 
> It might be that you need to tweak simh some. Both setting a correct 
> idle parameter, and possibly tweaking the speed of various things like 
> cpu and devices might be needed... I seem to remember if you do nothing 
> you get a rather miserable default config.

I don't think that is true. As far as I know there are no settings for
performance except if you want to slow the guest down. The default is to
run as fast as possible. Idle is not supported on all platforms btw and
would not affect the guest anyway, only the host.

This has been solved by running on an adequately fast emulation host. Emacs
is now perfectly usable. Big, big thanks to hb for spending all this time
on getting a nice build.

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