[Info-vax] VMS Alpha emulator

[Tad Winters]

On 5/28/2021 4:57 PM, Arne Vajhøj via Info-vax wrote:
> On 5/28/2021 7:50 PM, gah4 wrote:
>> On Friday, May 28, 2021 at 6:50:00 AM UTC-7, Chris Townley wrote:
>>> I think FreeAXP has improved. I use it extensively - you are limited in
>>> the free version to 128Mb, a single SCSI bank and 1 NIC.
>>
>> Real 128M or virtual?  Swapping from a RAM disk should be really fast
>> compared
>> to 30 year old hardware.  But if it is virtual, it is more of a problem.
>
> I believe it is emulated VMS RAM.
>
> So:
>
>                    |--128 MB VMS RAM--128 MB virtual memory on PC
> processes on VMS--|
>                    |--VMS disk--container file on PC
>
> If the PC has SSD disk then it is a lot faster than the original RZ
> disks. But I suspect some overhead.
>
> Arne

Just use this:
https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/980-pro-pcie-4-0-nvme-ssd-2tb-mz-v8p2t0b-am/#benefits