[Info-vax] HW_NAME and HW_TYPE

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In article <ijpc8s$83i$1 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
>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.

Stan's SID-change product woudl/should also work on real hardware too.
You don't need to ask why I would know this. ;)


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