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

[tadamsmar]

On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 1:00:11 PM UTC-5, BillPedersen wrote:
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> > Can you configure a PC so that it could replace a bare DS10?
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> > 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?
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> > Can you do this with freeware?
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> > 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.
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> > Opps, forgot to move the cables from the 2 Ethernet ports! Those are needed also.
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> > Of course, a bare DS10 would still be cheaper, perhaps, for the same performance.
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> Well, a DS10L with 512MB, 20+GB disk, diskette and CD for approximately $500 from a reseller in the US.  Out performs PersonalAlpha DS20 on HP Proliant p6710f (AMD Athlon II X4 640 3 GHz) as well as any other "free" Alpha emulator.
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> Bill.

The price on those is hard to beat.

Would license paks for a DS10 also work on a DS10L?  No more units needed?