Re: DECstation 2100: power trouble?

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> I'd like to backport support, but I'm having trouble finding the
>> necessary hardware doc.  I'm doing this build in the hope that 4.0.1
>> is old enough to have a self-hosting-capable VAX compiler.
> 11.0_RC3 has one.

But it's GPLv3, right?  I've tried three times to read that license and
I've still missed pieces.  That makes it unsuitable for my use
*regardless* of what it actually permits.

That's why I don't run anything past 5.2 (on my own machines) - that's
the point at which core let a GPLv3 compiler into the tree.  (Or close;
I don't recall precisely when it happened, but I'm reasonably sure it
was between 5.2 and 6.0.)  I could drop the compiler, but a machine
without a compiler is of little use to me.  I've considered
alternatives, but I haven't found one that ticks enough boxes.

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