Brian Chase wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, James Lothian wrote:
> > > allisonp@world.std.com wrote:
> 
> > > > Only the MVII, MS2000 have the 16mb limit.  LAter machines are at least
> > > > capable of 32mb or much more.
> > > >
> > > > personally I find it ghastly to need more than 16mb to compile reasonably.
> > > > Sound much more like disk flogging (not enough or large enough IO
> > > > buffers?).
> > > >
> > > > Allison
> > >
> > > Erm, the 750 has a 14Mb limit. And most 750s were 8Mb. I know it's not a
> > > microvax, but it's still a vaxentoy, at least as far as I'm concerned!
> >
> > Actually, the limit is 22 MB, but that requires another memory controller,
> > which is less common...
> 
> Hey... and you're all forgetting about the lowly MicroVAX-I and
> VAXstation-I which only supports 4Megs of RAM.  Someday my pretty
> MicroVAX-I will run NetBSD... someday.
> 
Also mustn't forget the 730. For netbsd-vax to be worth having, even the
really
old and slow machines need to be able to build their own kernels (&c) in
something
resembling a sensible amount of time. By the way, is there a vax
back-end for lcc?

James