[Info-vax] Anyone could share the used to be free and available Charon AXP NCE ( also called PersonalAlpha) Alpha Emulator? or any other which works OK

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On Sunday, July 30, 2017 at 4:14:54 PM UTC-4, viktor.ma... at gmail.com wrote:
> while at the moment i can not afford none I feel EMuVM is the one I d go for if I had the money for the sincerity and understanding they have towards people like me
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> Is it better if I try to emulate or just try and grab something like a cheap-er DS10L if i can?

I switched from a real DS10 to AlphaVM some years ago, based on the real hardware becoming more and more troublesome. This was for personal / hobby use, but I purchased a full EmuVM license (directly from the author; that was long before they had a US distributor). I still support some DS10/DS10L systems for people, but they are also getting older and having more problems (the Alphas, not the people).

I was originally running AlphaVM on a dedicated system (Dell R710 w/ FreeBSD) and the power savings were significant, but after a recent (around a year ago) server consolidation I now run AlphaVM on my main FreeBSD system (also a Dell R710, but a top-end configuration).

The only real use I make of VMS is email (I have all my sent / received email going back 25 years) and DEC Document (I create / maintain the documentation for various products like this: https://www.glaver.org/transient/mod-6-generic.pdf ). I also host the ftp.info-zip.org web site on this system, as well as mirroring various other VMS freeware sites. Since DEC Document didn't even make it to IA64, I doubt we'll see it on x86-64 VMS.