On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 05:43:22PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 12:10:04PM +0100, Kiss László Zoltán wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > My name is Laszlo, I'm from Budapest, I study in the Technical University of
> > Budapest. Last week we got a DEC 4000 model 710 server machine. We'd like to
> > vivify "him" :) But we can't find a free Unix-like operating system that
> > support this model. 
> > I write this mail because it is not so clear for me, that NetBSD supports
> > this model or not. Please help me to enjoy our DEC :)))
> 
> You may want to try NetBSD/alpha:
> http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/alpha/
> 
> It should be close enouth to the 4100
> see http://www.compaq.com/alphaserver/archive/4100/ for details on your
> machine

The 4100 is a later PCI machine, and quite different.

The DEC 4000 dates back together with the DEC 3000 (and 7000 and 10000).
It has a Futurebus.
Diskbusses are DSSI and SCSI (NCR 710).

-Roar Thronĉs