On Tue, 30 Apr 1996, Jan-Hinrich Fessel wrote:

> In message <199604270052.RAA22998@toccata.fugue.com>you write:
> > 
> > > 	Someone has offered me one of these beasts - are there any plans
> > > 	to port NetBSD to them?
> > 
> > No, but you could be the first!   You may be able to steal some
> > drivers from the VAX port, and of course the CPU support is already
> > there.   Definitely not plug and play, though...
> 
> Yes.
> Having had no luck getting it to boot NetBSD, I am considering trading in mine 
> for a SS 5/110, which will lower the cost for that beast ~1300 $.  You can 
> have my QBUS SCSI-Adapter for a nominal fee if I can collect the 6500 $ rest 
> :-( for the SS5.
> 
	Someone else (closer) got the machine (must have been something to
	do with the 4Gb of disk space attached to it :), still looks like
	that guy will  be offering me his two old microvaxes as hes now
	short of space :)

	Thanks for the info!


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