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The Little VAX That Could
- bdfh42 14y agoJust checked the last VAX I continue to work with (on occasion) - more than 5 years since the last re-boot.
- vaxdigitalnh 14y agoI still love the VAX. Even after all these years it still seems like a robust computer, much for the reason bdfh42 cited: it's built to last. Alas, how many computers are built with that intention today? I don't use Windows anymore, but the the SIMH VAX simulator used to work great on XP; it was very fast. Does it still work on Windows 8?
- pasbesoin 14y agovaxdigitalnh, your post is dead. However, I found the project you mentioned interesting: The Computer History Simulation Project http://simh.trailing-edge.com/ http://simh.trailing-edge.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMH http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMH Quoting from the first URL: SIMH implements simulators for: Data General Nova, Eclipse Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-1, PDP-4, PDP-7, PDP-8, PDP-9, PDP-10, PDP-11, PDP-15, VAX GRI Corporation GRI-909, GRI-99 IBM 1401, 1620, 1130, 7090/7094, System 3 Interdata (Perkin-Elmer) 16b and 32b systems Hewlett-Packard 2114, 2115, 2116, 2100, 21MX, 1000 Honeywell H316/H516 MITS Altair 8800, with both 8080 and Z80 Royal-Mcbee LGP-30, LGP-21 Scientific Data Systems SDS 940 SWTP 6800 P.S. I see now that vaxdigitalnh's comment has been resurrected.
- ChuckMcM 14y agoHeh, VAX assembly language is arguably [1] the peak of the CISC instruction set movement. [1] Some folks that x86 has taken that crown away as it continues to become more specialized but instruction 'feature sets' are, to my way of thinking, somewhat different than the base architecture.