VAX Emulators

Tim Shoppa SHOPPA at trailing-edge.com
Mon Aug 30 11:49:47 AEST 1999


>> Keep up the good work.   Have you heard of any VAX-11 emulators that we
>> could use to run some of the versions of unix for the VAX?

>No, I don't know of any free ones. I think DEC have one for the Alpha,
>but it's commercial.

What DEC has for the Alpha to let you run VAX code is VEST, which is
a translator, not a pure emulator.

> Does anybody know of a VAX emulator?

Well, during 1977-1978 VAX instruction set development was done
on an 11/70 running an emulator.  Does that count? :-)

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