FPGA VAX update

[Chuck Guzis]

Slightly OT:  How fast (in comparison to the original 11/780) do PC-based
emulators run?  My only close-up exposure with this line was a couple of
years with an 11/750.  It didn't seem like a speed demon then.

If PC-based emulators are fast enough, why bother with the IC version?  An
intellectual exercise?  Or will the FPGA version run an order of magnitude
faster than the original?

Very OT:  This was about 1983, when AT&T thought they'd give the retail
computer business a go.  Over the space of about a month and a half, I did
my best to buy a 3B4 (I think) from them.  I succeeded only in enriching
the long-distance end ot their business.  

The marketeers didn't have a clue ("Do we make that?").  Apparently, if I'd
wanted to buy a 6300, they'd put a dozen on a truck headed my way the next
day.  But one of their minis?  A wall of ignorance.  After absolutely no
luck, I picked up the phone, talked to the local DEC marketer and had an
11/750 the next week.

Cheers,
Chuck