Subject: [Fwd: VaxStation II/GPX]
To: Vax NetBSD Port Mailing List <port-vax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: J. Buck Caldwell <buck_c@polygon.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/02/1998 12:53:15
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Thought some of you might like to contact this guy...

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Subject: Re: VaxStation II/GPX
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 06:31:10 GMT
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On Wed, 28 Jan 1998 20:41:33 GMT, dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
wrote:

>>In article <34CF05A0.396E92A@usdesign.com>,
>>Chuck McCrobie (** MAD VAX **) <mccrobie@usdesign.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>NetBSD has been ported to VAX.  You'll want to check the hardware list,
>>>but I'm certain it does support the MicroVAX II - don't know about the
>>>VAXStation II/GPX.
>>>
>>
>>  NetBSD/vax doesn't (yet!) support the VCB02 graphics subsystem found in a
>>II/GPX but otherwise treats it just like a MivroVAX II.

	Dave, if it would be any help to whoever's trying to write in the
support code for the VCB02, I have a VCB02 programming manual that I would
be happy to loan out. It describes the registers and calls for the entire
VCB system in terrifying detail.

	Regrettably, I lack the programming background to attempt it myself.


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