> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 19:58:15 -0600 (CST)
 > From: "J. Joseph Max Katz" <jkatz@corinne.mac.edu>
 > To: port-vax@netbsd.org
 > Subject: VS2000
 > 
 > Re...
 > 	I was looking through the hardware supported/unsupported list at
 > netbsd.org--
 > 	It says the VAX Staion 2000 is supported, but it shows "graphic
 > screen on VS2000" under the ``Not support yet'' listing. Does that mean it
 > is time to break out the serial console (and I don't have to spend the
 > extra $$$ on the 19" monitor?) Does it mean that the color graphics option
 > is NOT supported but the 2-bit version is? Is this an item that needs to
 > be updated on the WWW page?

	Jon, I think this is something I volunteered to work on about 100
years ago :-) The VS2000 does run netbsd, and is supported in the 1.2 that is
currently on the archive (though I myself have not gotten up to 1.2 yet).
The console is on one of the serial ports, I think it's the printer port,
with the magic jumper installed to make the boot ROM use the printer port
instead of the graphics console. I'm supposed to be working on support for the
graphical console, and sadly haven't had time to do so :-(  I think the
"frame buffer" is conpatible with the monochrome one in the PMAX, and will
probably use a hacked version of pm.c from that part of the code tree. I
do not have any of the color graphics stuff, so someone else will have to
help with that.

	Netbsd on the VS2000 with the serial console is solid, if slow.
One of these days we'll be able to use them as X platforms, again expected to
be slow.

 > -Jon	MacMurray College Sophomore (officially, after JTerm!)
 > jkatz@corinne.mac.edu	Running OpenBSD 2.0   Hacking: FAT32 Support
 > root@corinne.mac.edu	 ///////|\\\\\\\	IPX/Netware Support
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