[Simh] Netbooting the SIMH VAX emulator

[David Brownlee]

On 6 July 2013 00:46, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm <Mark at infocomm.com> wrote:
> The VAX 3900, MicroVAX2, and MicroVAX1 simulators all can boot VMS over the
> network (and join a VMScluster).  I think that the MicroVAX 1 has some VMS
> version constraints, but the boot activity works.  The boot host in these
> cases have been real hardware or smh VAX systems.

I wonder if the *BSD/vax code assumes the ethernet interface is in a
certain state which is always true on real hardware and
simh-from-disk, but not on simh-netboot? Its quite likely VMS is more
diligent about initialising the hardware...