Charon-PDP Virtual PDP-11

Charon-PDP creates a virtual PDP-11 environment on a standard Windows-based host system. Stromasys customers can quickly, easily, and safely phase out aging and increasingly expensive DEC hardware, and replace it with an enterprise-grade virtual PDP environment on an industry-standard x86 platform.

No risky migration projects are required, and no changes to the original software (operating system, layered products, or applications) procedures or handling have to be applied. Your end-users would not even notice that the hardware platform had been replaced!

For almost every PDP that was ever manufactured, Stromasys offers a Charon-PDP equivalent.

HP recognizes Charon-PDP as a valid PDP replacement platform to run RSX-11M, RT11, RSTS. No application source code or conversion is required, no matter which PDP hardware platform your software was running on.

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Charon-PDP Offers the Following Virtualized Hardware

The two models of the Charon-PDP family support the appropriate hardware for their architecture. The PDP-11/93 supports virtualized Q-Bus and the PDP-11/94 supports virtualized Unibus devices.

Storage Subsystems

Charon-PDP supports both virtualized storage as well as physical storage. Physical storage is associated with local SCSI devices allocated to Charon-PDP. Virtual storage (container files) can reside on any storage subsystem presented to the host system. This can be either SCSI, SATA, IDE or any other local storage (including USB). Additionally, any network-attached storage can be utilized that is supported by the host, including iSCSI, SAN, NAS, Samba/CIFS and NFS.

Input/Output Subsystems

Charon-PDP provides a variety of networking and character terminal-oriented interfaces. Charon-PDP virtualizes the Ethernet controllers present in the original PDP hardware.

Customers Talk About Working with Stromasys

Hear what our customers have to say about working with Stromasys, and the difference legacy system migration made in their business.

What Customers Say About Stromasys!

"We needed a way forward, and Charon provided that, and more. Using the Charon software allowed us to reduce energy consumption, increase our available floor space, and save on maintenance costs."

Graham Wayne

Resource Manager at Canadian Department of National Defence

"Confidence in Charon-VAX at the Minden site continues to grow, and even long-serving employees are convinced by the reliability of the Swiss-made virtualization software. ABB immediately benefited from the flexibility.."

Krückemeier Horst

CTO at ABB Minden

"Space is a big commodity. Using Charon-VAX, we went from refrigerator-sized VAX hardware that also required a refrigerator-sized array, to a modern, rackable HP DL 2U server."

Steve Olson

VMS Systems Manager at Fidelity National Financial

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