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From: rcb@rti-sel.UUCP (Randy Buckland)
Newsgroups: fa.info-vax
Subject: Re: VAX on it's older cousin
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Date: Fri, 25-Jan-85 12:29:48 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 25 12:29:48 1985
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> I see two big problems (of the top of my head):
> 
>      1) the limit of the 64KB address space
>      2) the lack of VM hardware.
> 
> I see one BIG advantage, though - whoever pulls this off will NEVER lack
> employment for as long as (s)he lives!

	There is always the ever popular and totally awful solution.
The machine simulator. Write a program that will simulate a vax cpu
with memory as disk space... Then just bring up standard vms. Easy, no?

					Randy Buckland
					Research Triangle Institute
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