Just you wait, i am working on booting ULTRIX on it, and then hopefully emulating JAZZ system and booting windows NT (video provided over virtual vnc over virtual ethernet over usb)

As if the ulcers gained from Atmel's DMA implementation weren't enough, you just have to delve deeper ;)

Excellent work, excellent writeup. Hopefully those lucky should who receive these cards from you understand how much sweat and blood went into them!

can you then run WSL so we can get back to Linux again?

no WSL available for windows NT on MIPS

There was a subsystem for POSIX, though, it's very rudimentary from what I've heard.

Windows NT had a fairly complete POSIX subsystem (for the time) [0] (but not virtualization layer) so you’d only be able to use Linux if it could compile as a rump kernel (it can’t).

That was followed by a replacement subsystem, Windows Services for Unix [1], which later used a “real” Unix compatible layer after their purchase of Interix.

WSLv1 was therefore the fourth subsystem available (though it couldn’t do some of what the previous ones did, and did some of what they couldn’t), and the complete rewrite as WSLv2 is at least the fifth such attempt.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX

Maybe colinux could be hacked for that.

It's a pity they never ported VMS to it...

Presumably you could port SIMH to it.

What, no Xerox Alto?

Love your work.

I wish I still had my old DECStation 3100. I know there's an oil refinery near me that runs VAXStation 3100s to control SCADA systems still, in mint condition in glass-fronted racks in the control outstation buildings, with the protective plastic film still on the badges. I *want* those when they get decommed!