Subject: Re: Vaxstation/MicroVAX info
To: David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/23/1998 15:54:55
On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, David Evans wrote:
> David Brownlee wrote:
> >
> > > It's a KA630. The KA630 supports up to 16 Mbytes, but only on up to 2
> > > boards, not 4.
> >
> > Updated - thanks - are 4MB boards also available for it?
> >
>
> Yes; I have a four and an eight in mine right now. I think that there are
> 1MB and 2MB boards as well.
> BTW, I don't know if you want to add this, but NetBSD has no support for the
> QDSS/QVSS boards. I'm going to attack it once I get my VS3100 going to
> compile on.
Excellent stuff - I believe NetBSD is transitioning to a new
machine independant console/framebuffer interface called 'wscons'
(The alpha uses an early version of this).
I can check with the developers list to see if there is an
appropriate person to talk to about this if you like?
David/absolute
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