Linux on VAX

[David Brownlee]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 at 02:57, Maciej W. Rozycki <macro at linux-mips.org> wrote:
>  I still have some VAX hardware that works (my 4000/90, mysteriously, went
> braindead as in "all diagnostic LEDs steady lit after power-up" and then
> became alive again after a year or so of being braindead, for a reason I
> still haven't figured out and probably never will), so I could try pushing
> this effort forward again if motivated enough.

(Apologies if the below is obvious)

SIMH recently gained support for quite a few more models, including the 4000 M60
https://github.com/simh/simh/commit/f028802bffe3c5357ca26111d4a36457b4644826

Obviously a simulator is an incomplete target (in particular last I
checked simh allowed you to do things with MSCP that would give a real
VAX indigestion), but it can be a really useful tool to quickly test
something with an abundance of RAM :)

David