[Info-vax] HW_NAME and HW_TYPE

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article
<f3a53f7f-9a31-4d8b-abd6-92d4f9afa0ea at i39g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
"Stanley F. Quayle" <quayle at pobox.com> writes: 

> I have a product that changes these values (and others, like SID).
> It's described at:
> 
> http://www.stanq.com/sid-change.html
> 
> For VAX, you can change the model number, and the product will display
> the name from a table that's in VMS.  On Alpha and Itanium, you can
> set the string to anything you like, since there's no table.

OK, but I have real hardware, no emulation, so I'm confused as to why it 
doesn't work.