[Info-vax] Is a simple to use virtual Alpha aready feasible?

[tadamsmar]

Can you configure a PC so that it could replace a bare DS10?

That is, so that you could just disconnect the bus cables in a ds10 and connect them to cards in the PC and then boot and run?

Can you do this with freeware?

It seemed like vtAlpha might do that. The documentation seemed to advising you from just using your old disks, which seems to imply that you *could* just use your old disks.

Opps, forgot to move the cables from the 2 Ethernet ports! Those are needed also.

Of course, a bare DS10 would still be cheaper, perhaps, for the same performance.