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Re: ns32k digression (Was: VAXstation 4000/90 - ssh & display oddities)



On 26 April 2012 19:18, Jochen Kunz <jkunz%unixag-kl.fh-kl.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:10:39 +0100
> David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>>
>> Looks like fun - I seem they are exhibiting a PC532 - now thats a
>> machine that makes VAXen look positively common :)
>
> VAXen are common. Remember? All the World is a VAX. :-)
> BTW: That person also owns a Symetrix 375. A NS32k machine running
> 4.2BSD build by Jolitz & Jolitz...

I gave away my Whitechapel MG-1 - ns32016 running 42nix including
a GUI in 1.5MB - many years ago :(

>> Pity none wanted to keep the NetBSD port going :/
> Well. Without GCC support for ns32k, as thorpej already pointed out...

We 'just' need someone with Too Much Time On Their Hands (tm) to write an
ns32k backend for LLVM or PCC...


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