> 
> Hi!
> 
> I know it's not the port-wish-list, but just a quick query:
> 
> Anyone working/planning to work on VAX 8000 ?. We've just received
> a VAX8530 machine with a bunch of RA82's and allegedly 128(?) M RAM.
> 
:-) Yes, we have 6-7 85?0 here also. A goal is that one day be able
to run NetBSD on these too. But that will take a while before that.

> So far we managed to blow the fuses in the building then boot VMS :-).
> 
> Should we dump the whole thing, or is there any chance NetBSD could be booted
> on it? How different is it from the uVAXII`s and 750's?
> 
Rather much, since there is another bus structure on these machines.
We need support for Bi-buss and devices on that. Yes, there were some
BI-buss-support in 4.3BSD, but it need to be rewritten (It looks
braindead) and a real driver for KDB50 is needed. Processor support 
is probably rather easy to fix; I have lots of docs for KA88 here.

-- Ragge