I've got a Personal DECstation 5000/25 running Ultrix 4.4.  Standard
configuration, with 12 MB of RAM (soon to be 16) instead of the base 8
MB. I've been considering replacing Ultrix with NetBSD.  Can someone
tell me what some of the advantages/disadvantages of NetBSD over Ultrix
are?

What I intend to use it for (next year, at least) is an Internet
gateway, with one Ethernet interface for a LAN subnet with three other
hosts and another to an Internet router in our apartment complex.  (I'm
going to get an extra Ethernet card as a TurboChanel option so I can
have two interfaces.)  Is NetBSD a good choice for this task?  I'd like
to do IP masquerading if NetBSD supports it, otherwise proxies will be
fine.

I read through the FAQ for the pmax port.  Is it still the case that
the available gcc is only at 2.7.0 and standard NetBSD gcc/gdb/gas
don't work?  Also, is there any ETA on shared library support?  That
would be a big plus for my RAM-starved machine.  Does NetBSD/pmax differ
from standard NetBSD in any other ways not listed in the FAQ?

Oh yeah..  how good is the MAXINE support?  Is 1.1 only still "believed
to work" for it?  I don't want to wipe out Ultrix and find out that
NetBSD doesn't work.
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Nathan Urban | nurban@vt.edu | Undergrad {CS,Physics,Math} | Virginia Tech