Subject: Re: Any NetBSD installations on VAX 11/{780,750,730} systems?
To: Brian Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/28/2000 22:50:32
Yep, I have a VAX 11/750 with RP07, RA82, 14MB mem and a DEQNA running;
mostly for testing/verifying changes that may affect the VAX11 series.

-- Ragge

> Just a question to be asked out of idle curiosity... Is anyone on this
> list running NetBSD (any version of it) on one of the earlier VAX systems?
> 
> Given the recent discussion threads on the 1.5 release performing less
> than wonderfully on slower hardware like the 0.9 MIPS MicroVAX-II, I'm
> curious about it's usability on the ever slower VAX 11/750 and 11/730.
> 
> I do have a nice 4Meg MicroVAX-I which clocks in at ~0.3 MIPS, but NetBSD
> isn't ported to it... yet.  A resource limited system like this would
> surely test the bounds of NetBSD running with restricted resources.
> 
> -brian.
> --- Brian Chase | bdc@world.std.com | http://world.std.com/~bdc/ -----
> Computers are useless.  They can only give you answers.  -- Pablo Picasso.
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