hello,

currently no 4BSD runs on that machine. Actually i am at the moment 
working on getting 4.3tahoe to run on a KA690 (4000/600) which is quite 
similar to a 4000/400. I expect that i should probably have it working 
within a few days. It wont support the DSSI or the SHAC just yet, those
need to have support wirtten for them, but the Qbus will work so any Qbus
devices you have you will probly be able to use. Stay tuned, i will announce
it here when i get it working. i got a little further yesterday. (somehow
something is frobbing a register, methinks, wrongly, and forcing an 
access violation.. just takes tedium to drill through and find the 
problem. ) but NetBSD and OpenBSD are the only ones that support these boxen
right now. Open has some issue with not supporting local disks i think? i
seem to remember something like that from a few months back. 

Look here for more info! hopefully by next week youll be able to boot 
tahoe on your 4400! 

happy hacking,
isildur

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Brian Hechinger wrote:

> i've finally gotten myself to getting around to signing up for PUPS access.
> i don't have the time to screw around with DECUS right now, so i won't be
> running VMS anytime soon (i hate compaq, decus used to be such an organized
> organization) so i was wondering what the opinions of the list members here
> were for getting one of the 4BSD distros on my VAX 4000/400 with DSSI disks
> on the internal controller.  i'm tempted to go for Tahoe, but only since that
> is what i cut my UNIX teeth on, so it's what i know best.
> 
> what does everyone here think?  NetBSD Bob? i know you have opinions by the
> barrell, let's hear them.  :)
> 
> cheers,
> 
> -brian
>