[Info-vax] Use SimH/VAX to boot infoserver software?

[John E. Malmberg]

On 1/27/2019 10:12 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2019-01-27 14:54:54 +0000, John E. Malmberg said:
> 
>> What would it take to have SimH/VAX boot the old infoserver software?
> 
> The emulation would prolly have to be configured to pretend to be a 
> MicroVAX 3100 box.
> 
> The InfoServer 100 series box was based on a MicroVAX 3100 Model 20 
> series box.0
> 
> With that emulation configured, the following boot command should be 
> enough:
> 
> ⫸ B/R5:D0000000 DKA0:
> 
>> Has anyone tried it?
> 
> Not here.
> 
> No reason to, either.
> 
> The host-based InfoServer support on OpenVMS I64 V8.2-1 and later, 
> OpenVMS Alpha V8.3 and later had fixed a couple of issues with the older 
> InfoServer software.

I would prefer to be able to spin up an Infoserver on either a rPi or an 
old x86[-64] computer, so that I am not dependent on keeping one of my 
larger systems running.

I have seen many reports of es-40 being able to boot OpenVMS 8.4, so I 
am trying to find time to set that up for a test.

It takes up much less time to spin-up a SimH/VAX instance though.

Regards,
-John