Subject: Re: Any NetBSD installations on VAX 11/{780,750,730} systems?
To: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Mattias Nordlund <mathew@eagle.y.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/28/2000 22:53:38
Speaking of big VAX'en, how is the VAX6000 support going? It have been
rather quiet about that model for months now.
Mattias
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> 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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