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Excellent write up, so detailed! Thanks for posting it. I wonder if AXPbox would compile on Pi? Will try it just to witness the history in progress, ES40 with
by zoomablemind 6y ago
Excellent write up, so detailed! Thanks for posting it.
I wonder if AXPbox would compile on Pi? Will try it just to witness the history in progress, ES40 with numerous fans and whirrrs of the SCSI drives ... silently blinking on a Pi board.
- lenticularis39 6y agoThat was originally my idea - that's why I need an open source Alpha emulator. I don't have my Pi set up right now, but considering es40 builds on RPi AXPbox should, too, at least on a 64-bit OS.
- zoomablemind 6y agoGreat work! Hope you can get any help with it from DECUS/VMSports folks. What's the choice of the 64-bit OS for RPi? I was about to try this with my vanilla RPi 3B+, just to realize it's 32-bit raspbian... BTW, VSI is readying x86 port of the OpenVMS [1], not sure how far would it maintain Alpha/IA version. [1]: https://vmssoftware.com/updates/state-of-the-port https://vmssoftware.com/updates/state-of-the-port
- lenticularis39 6y agoI used Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi 4 for the es40 testing. It's however quite possible that AXPbox will run on 32-bit Raspbian - I had problems with a PowerPC G4 (Freescale MPC7447A) CPU, but that is in addition to being 32-bit also big endian.