> On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, NetBSD Bob wrote:
> 
> > Don't laugh, too hard.....(:+}}...
> > 
> > For the fun of it I am trying to collect up the earliest ports of
> > BSD that will run on a MicroVAX II.
> 
> BSD or NetBSD? They are not the same... :-)

True, but they came from the same bed.  Since, it seems that the 1.0A
could be run up on a Reno, if I am reading the info correctly, by
merely changing about 5 files.  My goal is to go backwards and
recreate a running Reno, and maybe Tahoe from the NetBSD-1.0A.

> > If not, maybe tonight I will try backporting to 4.3BSD-Reno.
> 
> 4.3Reno should work just fine on a MVII.
> I don't know when the MVII got supported in BSD. I doubt that it's in 4.1,
> so that means it's somewhere in the 4.2 to 4.3Reno timeframe.

AFAIK, MVII support came in on Tahoe, but was there in skeleton shape
in 4.3.  I have run into some folks with MVII's running straight 4.3,
Tahoe, and Quasijarus (a recent late model 4.3).  But, I am not having
good luck getting them up on my particular MVII.  I think it is scsi
hardware issues.  I may have to try them on MFM or ESDI controllers.

> As for NetBSD, the first VAX port was around 0.9, but at that time I
> think it was 11/750 only. So perhaps 1.0 is the earliest...?

That is what I was trying to find out.  If that is it, then it's off
to Reno tonight......(:+}}...

Thanks

Bob