Subject: Re: Earliest VAX port?
To: NetBSD Bob <nbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
From: Lord Isildur <mrfusion@vaxpower.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/27/2000 17:14:04
I'm pretty sure some pre-1.0's ran on VAX. The uvII was supported in 
4.3BSD and all the code was still there foe 4.3t, reno, and 4.4. net1&2 
and pals, so i dont see why pre-1.0 netbsd wouldnt run on it. 
i remember (it's a foggy memory now) some pre-1.0 netbsd running on an HP 
9000/300 i now use as an end table.. :-) 
1.0A is pretty far back though! 

happy hacking,
isilur (catching up with about 350 messages here now :)

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.  My goal is to roll up a set
> of disks with each version back through 4.3BSD-Tahoe, for some
> educational, experimental purposes.  Last night I got NetBSD-1.0A
> up and running from a 1.2 build.  Is there anything any earlier
> floating around in the bilges of NetBSD VAXland for MicroVAX II's?
> If not, maybe tonight I will try backporting to 4.3BSD-Reno.
> Anyone got a working MVII Reno MVII still around?  If not, I
> will just start from the Reno tape.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bob
> 
> p.s. (I am amazed at how zippy the 1.0A suite is compared to 1.5
>       on the MVII... the difference is like night an day.)
> 
>