[Info-vax] clock problems with OpenVMS x86 on VirtualBox
Johnny Billquist
bqt at softjar.se
Wed May 10 11:56:13 EDT 2023
On 2023-05-10 00:56, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 5/9/2023 12:44 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> On 2023-05-09 17:52, Dave Froble wrote:
>>> I can guess that perhaps the biggest technical reason is the lack of
>>> old VAX hardware to test against. A few edits and firing up the
>>> build procedure might be possible. But on what HW do you run the
>>> build procedure?
>>
>> simh would be perfectly reasonable.
>
> What about build time?
Probably a fraction of what it took 20 years ago. Assuming it can be
done without having every model of a VAX available for building.
simh only simulates a subset of existing VAXen. But it moves on very
fast compared to any VAX of old... Hardware have just become so much
faster...
Johnny
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