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Hello.

- From the replies to a previous posting of mine and other messages about
the GPXII I understand that it is possible to boot NetBSD on such a
machine. I also understand that there is no support for its graphics
console.

My question is: can the console be used as a serial terminal?  Can I
plug a serial terminal (is this a VT100-type object?) into the same
port as the console or do I need a different port? Could this be the
printer port?

I ask all these (probably silly) questions because I have been trying
to boot from a TK50 (with miniroot.fs bs=512 and root.cpio bs=5120): on
the console, after typing b/3 mua0 I see the system counting down to 0,
then nothing happens. Perhaps at this stage the machine is trying to
talk to a terminal through a different port.

Give me words of hope! I really would love to have this "monster"
(compared to my PC) running.

Thanks

Giuseppe Vacanti

PS: another naive question. Wasn't BSD running on microVAXes a long
time ago? Why the need to port NetBSD? Legal issues?

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