This product is retired as of December 2006 - CHARON-VAX/Industrial Plus for Windows
CHARON-VAX/Industrial Plus for Windows is a second-generation MicroVAX 3600 system emulator with a significantly improved emulation speed. This product is suitable for applications where a physical Qbus needs to be kept on the target CHARON-VAX due to special hardware connected. Using a technology known as Accelerated CPU Emulation (ACE), the emulator dynamically optimizes the emulation of the VAX instructions, providing an improvement of 3 to 5 times over emulators without ACE.
The ACE technology in CHARON-VAX/Industrial Plus does not require intermediate storage of translated code, but provides its full capability instantly. As the optimization takes place below the emulated hardware level, the emulator remains fully VAX hardware compatible and is completely transparent to VAX operating systems and applications, like the earlier CHARON-VAX emulators.
The VAX software is transferred to the Windows host system and executed by CHARON-VAX/Industrial Plus without any modification of the binary VAX code. CHARON-VAX/Industrial Plus is designed to execute software from mid-range and high-end VAX systems (ranging from a MicroVAX to a VAX 7X10) on Windows host systems.
Pointers to Software Product Descriptions (PDF files)
The Software Product Description (SPD) includes a detailed description of the product as well as order number, license and support options.
| Product | Emulated VAX model |
|---|---|
| CHARON-VAX/Industrial Plus >> Download SPD (PDF) |
MicroVAX II, MicroVAX 3500, MicroVAX 3600. Up to 64MB memory, accelerated VAX CPU emulation. |
