[Info-vax] Free Alpha emulators running under Linux ?

[cao...@pitbulluk.org]

On Wednesday, January 5, 2022 at 3:12:11 PM UTC, ^P wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 5, 2022 at 2:41:06 PM UTC+1, Simon Clubley wrote: 
> > On 2022-01-05, osf1 <npw... at googlemail.com> wrote: 
> > > 
> > > It will not run VMS at this stage. It's missing several parts, to emulate a complete system. I don't remember now, what exactly, but I don't think, the disk I/O parts (ATA/ATAPI) where complete and I don't think the serial ports as well, but haven't checked this. 
> > Thanks for the feedback. 
> > 
> > It looks like the last changes were in these areas before the project 
> > was apparently abandoned 9 months ago on GitLab. I may give it a brief 
> > tryout at some point just to see if there's now enough to run VMS. 
> > 
> > If I do try it at some point, I will report success or failure back here. 
> > Simon. 
> >
> So it's more or less only AXPBOX left then

I've noticed that axpbox is more stable when compiled -O2 (rather than the default -O3) though that probably depends on the linux platform - Arm in this case.
Strangely enough, lowering the amount of optimisation like that was also required to get KLH10 to work correctly.

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