Subject: Re: VS2000
To: Wintermute <mute@wintermute.org>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/08/1996 03:07:56
On October 8, you wrote:
> I saw that uVAX 2000 was almost fully supported.  Is this the same machine
> as the VS2000 (VS410-BA)?  I know that as of last spring the VS2000 was
> not supported.  I have two of these guys and it would be cool to be
> running netBSD on them.  If not is it possible to run ULTRIX on them? 
> Someone told me that he thought they only ran VMS (yuck).

  The MicroVAX-2000 and the VAXstation-2000 are basically the same
machine.  The MicroVAX-2000 is jumper-configured to disable the
onboard mono frame buffer.

  It is indeed possible to run Ultrix on them.  There's nothing that
weird about the machine.  I've run Ultrix on many a '2000.


                               -Dave McGuire