Subject: Re: odd piece of hardware
To: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 08/10/1999 23:18:27
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Matt Thomas wrote:

> At 09:50 AM 8/10/99 , K. Ramm wrote:
> >Anyone know what a 'rtVAX 1000' is?  the cpu card was a 'M7478-AV', and it
> >had two memory cards, a M7608-BE and a M709-AH.  What is this?  Will it run
> >NetBSD? Will the memory cards work with a KA630?
> 
> An rtVAX was a "modified (read broken)" 78032 (uVAX II CPU) which could run
> VAXELN but not ULTRIX or VMS (due to a change in how user PTEs are mapped).
> NetBSD/vax probably doesn't run on it but it could be changed to do so.
> But I doubt it's work the effort.
> 
	Didn't it have the single level MMU with a max 4MB of RAM?
	Could it make a good base for anyone looking to port to the
	uVaxI?

		David/absolute
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