[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[Ahem A Rivet's Shot]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 17:32:45 GMT
Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs at kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:

> Back in my Amiga days, I played with the Transformer, a
> software emulation of an 8088 on a 68000.  It would run
> MS-DOS, but very slowly - I figured about a 10x slowdown.
> Once just for giggles I ran Z80MU (a Z80 emulation for
> MS-DOS) under the Transformer.  Under these two levels
> of emulation I fired up the CP/M BASIC interpreter and
> typed "PRINT SIN(whatever)".  It came back with the
> correct answer - 7 seconds later.

	There's a PC emulation written in JavaScript that can boot Linux
(slowly). Presumably it would be possible to run Hercules in it and produce
a truly painfully slow mainframe emulation.

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