Create a VAX CPU with FPGA?

Zane H. Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Fri Mar 4 20:44:16 CST 2005


At 7:01 PM -0500 3/4/05, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
>I still think, a PC with simh and a PCI to Qbus adapter to allow the 
>use of Qbus peripherals that is more at hobbyist cost levels is a 
>far better solution, I wish the companies current selling those 
>$2,500-$3,000 cards would reduce their costs to more in line with a 
>$500 range, I 'm sure a lot of us would buy cards and they'd make it 
>up in quantity of sales.

And how many Hobbyists spend $500 on a SCSI card for their PDP-11, or 
$500+ on a  decent Alpha to run OpenVMS on?

		Zane


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