Subject: Re: Does NetBSD/VAX run on a MicroVAX 3100/80?
To: Erno Palonheimo <fsck@stip.net>
From: Mats O Jansson <maja@cntw.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/22/1998 22:13:39
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Erno Palonheimo wrote:

> G'day,
> 
> I have a MicroVAX 3100/80, currently running VMS. I'm interested in
> installing NetBSD, but it seems to be so that my machine is not supported.
> Is that really so, and if it is, when will it be supported? It is not
> possible to run ULTRIX on this machine afaik.

It's not supported.

At least two things are needed to get a VAX supported:

1) Information about the hardware to make it possible to add support.

2) Someone, with access to that kind of VAX, with the knowledge to do it.

Both of these things are often missing... 

>           Erno Palonheimo -  StipNet Oy.  - http://fsck.stip.net
>               IrcNet fsck - fsck@stip.net - GSM +358400615281 

-moj

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