Subject: Re: It rained another VAX on me... will NetBSD run on it?
To: NetBSD Bob <nbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
From: Lord Isildur <mrfusion@umbar.vaxpower.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/16/2001 15:45:23
hello,

ultrix never ran on the 4000's... :( 


On Wed, 16 May 2001, NetBSD Bob wrote:

> Whilst collecting wildfloweres de realme (weeds) for some student use,
> I perchance passed bye ye state surplus house, and it rained upon me
> a VAX of end table sized proportions.....(:+}}, fer fiver buckeroo
> de realme....
> 
> It has a pair of M7622 ram boards for 32mb, and a M7626 processor,
> that appears to be a VAX 4000 of some kind, and sadly, dssi drives.
> 
> What does it take to get such a machine running NetBSD, and if there
> is no current VAX support for it because of dssi, what level of Ultrix
> will it run off its tk50 tape?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bob
> 
>