[HECnet] Boot VAX from Alpha host Infoserver?

On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, gerry77 at mail.com wrote: It was my understanding that although the hardware is the same, the ROM firmware would have to be different. Or it was just the real InfoServer which had a crippled firmware just NOT to allow booting VMS on it? set hope/mode=on Would SIMH be up to this task? Can it simulate the needed hardware? If so, that would be the easy test needed. See if a SIMH Infoserver could boot a real VAX. At least it would be "closer" ... (hey, work with me here ... *grin*) Fred