Anders, 

I don't believe I have more time to spend on this than a private
beta-tester would. I am drowning in other exciting work. I know
everyone does. Oh, I see you are in Sweden, that's too bad, so
shipping one of the VAXen would probably be too expensive. My 
idea is that I distribute two VAXen to two people who would commit 
to doing the work of getting that port out.

Thanks,
-Gunther

Anders Magnusson wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> NetBSD on 6000 machines is "close-to-running". The CPU support for the
> /400 is finished, it's just the XMI stuff (and following device support)
> that is missing.
> 
> Unfortunately it's difficult to get HW docs for those machines;
> I think the best source of info is the header files in Ultrix.
> 
> If you are willing to work with 6000 I can try to help you as much
> as I can and have time to.
> 
> -- Ragge
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am going to be the proud owner of a VAX 6000-400 machine.
> > But I haven't seen that NetBSD runs on this one. How hard
> > do you think it will be to make it run? I know quite a bit
> > about the BSD kernel but know about nothing regarding the
> > VAX. So I appreciate any hints on how I should best approach
> > this project.
> >
> > Also, I have my hands on two more VAX 6000-400 machines that
> > need to go ASAP. I would like to "donate" them to whoever
> > would get NetBSD up and running on them.
> >
> > Please respond ASAP today or this weekend, since I have to
> > arrange for rescuing the machines before they go to the
> > junk yard.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Gunther
> >

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