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From: rmsmith@csc.com (Robert Smith)
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Subject: Re: VAX and RSX compability mode ??
Date: 14 Jul 1994 13:33:42 -0400
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Mike.Shawaluk@mail.mei.com (Mike Shawaluk) writes:

>On a (not quite totally) unrelated point: has anyone ever bothered to make an 
>RSX-11M/PDP-11 emulator for, say, an Intel 386/486/whatever platform?  How 
>about a AXP version?  These aren't totally frivelous questions; we have a few 
>old development systems where I work, that are basically RSX-11M systems 
>running with 11/73's, that have Whitesmith C cross-compilers for 68000, and 
>due to the complexity (and age) of the source code, which is still updated 
>periodically, we want to find a way of maintaining this software without 
>having to maintain the PDP-11's.  There have been attempts to move the code to 
>a different compiler environment, with disastrous results.
Take a look at ftp.update.uu.se for something called e11 it is an emulator
that runs on 286/386/486 platforms.
no os or software is included but...
hope this helps
bob

>Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

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