On 2023-11-25, Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell@munted.eu> wrote:

On Tue, 2023-11-21 at 17:03 -0800, Jake Hamby (Solid State Jake) wrote:

I suspect it might be just possible to emulate the hardware on
today's
machines but one would need their head examined.
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You can?t emulate Itanium fast enough in software with any known
emulator that?s available to the public and is capable of running the
Linux kernel. There?s only a very old partial software emulator
called ski.

It's much easier anyway to just install OpenVMS on x86!

And as mentioned earlier, _that_ removes the last possible reason to
want an Itanium full-system emulator. :-)

Simon.

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On Mon, 2023-11-27 at 13:48 +0000, John Dallman wrote:

On 2023-11-25, Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell@munted.eu> wrote:

It's much easier anyway to just install OpenVMS on x86!

And as mentioned earlier, _that_ removes the last possible reason
to
want an Itanium full-system emulator. :-)

For anything commercial, sure. The motives of enthusiasts can be
somewhat different. It's possible they're nostalgic for the SGI Altix
350 or 450 systems, which just might imply they managed to get them
to do something useful. If so, that's a feat worth remembering.

I've always wanted to have a play with IRiX but there aren't any good
SGI emulators out there.

BTW, I found out recently, that they used the Super Foonly F1 (a
supercharged PDP-10 no less) to render the CGI for the film TRON!
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