[Info-vax] VMS internals design, was: Re: BASIC and AST routines

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-11-26, Chris Townley <news at cct-net.co.uk> wrote:
> On 26/11/2021 18:54, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 
>> Alpha not so much, because full system emulation is available.
>> 
>> But yes, for Itanium, when replacement physical boxes are no longer
>> available is when the real problems start to occur.
>> 
>> It really is a pity that a full system emulator was never developed
>> for the Itanium architecture. That would have given people a few more
>> options.
>> 
>
> Well there's an opportunity for you!
>

I already had a look a while back. :-)

Given the complexity of the architecture, it's a massive undertaking
and required quite a bit of access to documents, firmware and knowledge
that was not public (or at least I could not find the materials).

Start with the system firmware. That's locked up behind a HPE paywall
and is not freely available.

Simon.

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