Re: Windows, Linux, yeah yeah
"More importantly, [my Pi] Hercules, so you can get some real work done."
A nice Pi makes a nice host for the SIMH configurable emulator, which emulates lots of different computers, mostly from slightly later than the birth of the mainframe.
A variety of DEC stuff (including PDP8, PDP10, PDP11, VAX, and more) gets lots of attention but there's othet stuff too including Data General minicomputers, Z80-based stuff, etc. Source is now in Github but there are also prebuilt kits, and there's even documentation.
Lots of people have done the VAX on a Pi job, some have connected two or more to form a VMScluster (aka VAXcluster), some have even written about it,
The same chap as did the "IBM mainframe on a Pi" post on designspark also did one a few weeks later for his VMScluster:
http://www.rs-online.com/designspark/electronics/eng/blog/a-raspberry-pi-vax-cluster?/designspark/electronics/blog/a-raspberry-pi-vax-cluster=
Plenty of other writeups elsewhere too (inevitably including Youtube).
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