Re: 3MIN 5000/125 power supply?

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

Aaron J. Grier wrote:

> I have a 5000/240 (3MAX) still running 1.4.3A that I have been
> postponing upgrading for a long time now.  how is NetBSD 5.0 running for
> you on your DECStation?  would you reccomend it as a stable upgrade?

Currently I'm building pkgsrc/lang/perl5 on the 3MIN
and it looks working fine, though newer gcc4 and binutils
require much more memories and minutes to build binaries...
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load averages:  1.35,  1.19,  1.08;               up 1+05:16:44        01:51:35
44 processes: 1 runnable, 42 sleeping, 1 on CPU
CPU states: 97.8% user,  0.0% nice,  2.1% system,  0.1% interrupt,  0.0% idle
Memory: 48M Act, 768K Inact, 14M Wired, 14M Exec, 8676K File, 12M Free
Swap: 120M Total, 20M Used, 100M Free

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE      TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
 7163 root      25    0    29M   26M RUN        8:27 84.67% 84.67% cc1
 5549 tsutsui   43    0  4556K 1568K CPU        0:01  5.30%  2.25% top
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Note gxemul supports 3MAX emulation pretty well, so you can try 5.0 first
on the emulator :-)
http://gxemul.sourceforge.net/gxemul-stable/doc/guestoses.html#netbsdpmaxinstall
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Izumi Tsutsui