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Re: Userland emulator



On 03/25/2013 08:10 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2013-03-25 18:21, Mouse wrote:
Note that DEC added virtualization support to the VAX architecture
already back in -87 :-)

Would be an interesting task to get NetBSD make use of it.

Which real VAXen have support for it?

None, as far as I know. It was defined in VARM, but never implemented. (But I might be wrong.)
Which doesn't matter so much; we could always add those insn's to simh and do the port. Look at amd64, the emulator was available a long time before the real hardware :-)

...which also calls for extending the vax to 64 bits.  Any takers? :-)

-- Ragge



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