Subject: Re: Earliest VAX port?
To: NetBSD Bob <nbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/29/2000 16:30:15
> > 
> > Hint: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/vax/history.html
> > 
> > I started hacking the VAX port on 0.9, but it did never really run 
> > reliable until after 1.0 was out. Hence the 1.0A dist floating around.
> > The letter changes were much more sparse back then, so this was something
> > like 5 months after the 1.0 release.
> > IIRC Rick Macklem wrote the MicroVAX II support in January -95.
> > 
> > -- Ragge
> 
> Ragge, do you or anyone else in the crewe have a backup of the 1.0A
> sources or binaries anywhere?  I got enough to get a machine up with
> it for some testing, but I could not get the C compiler and other things
> to work right to compile a MVII only kernel.  If you or anyone still
> has the 1.0A stuff floating about, I would like to get a copy, for
> some comparison testing, with a stripped MVII kernel.  The earliest
> thing I can find after that is the 1.2 suite.
> 
The best you can do is to check it out via AnonCVS.

-- Ragge