Subject: Re: New guy...
To: Ken Seefried <ken@seefried.com>
From: NetBSD Bob <nbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/25/2001 11:27:46
> >> also, if you run 4.3BSD on the machine, you can run X on that GPX :-) 
> >> isildur
> > 
> > My BA23 MVII has that board set (had it, I removed them).  I can't
> > imagine trying to run X on an MVII.... like open a window, go out
> > for coffee, open up a second window, go out for coffee.....(:+\\.... 
> 
> We did it at GaTech; there were a bunch of MVII/GPX under 4.3 when I was 
> there.  Wasn't that bad, depending on what else you were doing with the 
> machine.  Of course, the X11 of the day was an awful lot lighter weight than 
> what we have today, as was the Unix. 

4.3 is lots lighter.  I run the Quasijarus port, which, after some bit
twiddling, runs and installs pretty well.  What specific 4.3 port were
you using back then?  I have been trying to track down any 4.3 MVII
builds that might still exist, to add to the PUPS/TUHS archives, but,
noone seems to have any still.  IFF any of that stuff is still extant,
pass it my way and I will bounce it along to the archives.

As a demo of how light 4.3 is, the compiled kernel is around 150k
and it compiles in well under 30 minutes.... on an MVII 9 mb box,
with esdi drives, no less.....(:+}}...

> Ken Seefried, CISSP 

Thanks, Ken....  

Bob