[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Hobbyist Program Announced.

[osuvman50 at gmail.com]

On Sunday, June 16, 2019 at 12:44:15 PM UTC-4, Hans Bachner wrote:
> This is the way - at least most - emulators work. CHARON and AVTware 
> offer programs which can be installed on OpenVMS which kind of signal 
> the emulator that the Alpha CPU is idle and the emulator can release CPU 
> resources.

The PersonalAlpha software included a disk image with a PSCI file that installs
the IDLE driver (SYS$IDLE.EXE).

> Not sure about this one - it seems that the MSI network driver for PCAP 
> isn't properly installed. I didn't take a closer look at it, as I could 
> copy the DKA0 disk image to a CHARON-AXP instance where it happily 
> booted :-)
>

I've never been able to share a network interface with Windows network stacks. I
always assign it its own network card with a Realtek chip that supports changing the address. I think I got an updated NDIS/PCAP package from somewhere else, both emulators seem to work with it.