> 
> Okay - so here's the way I would do it, given resources, time, talent and so
> forth:
> 
> <talking through my hat>

Better than eating one's hut.....(:+}}....

.......

> Second - build a MSCP-emulator in chip #2 that interfaces to SCSI.
> 
> Third (optional) now that we understand MSCP, build another chip that
> interfaces MSCP to EIDE (because the drives are so cheap).

I think scsi should be the main thing.  And it should handle disk and
tape.

.....

> The sad part is, although I love the VAXen - I don't know enough to know if
> what I just lined out is even remotely practical, possible, or even if it
> makes any sense at all.

Well, we have to dream some before we affix pencil to drafting paper
(or was that hit the keyboard to cad).

> I just think it would be cool!  Imagine - 1GHz VAX 11/7[58]0 single-board
> replacement for almost anything out there - RAM up to 1Gbyte (can this
> architecture address that?), etc.
> 
> Can you *imagine* NetBSD on something like that?

Well, pipedreaming pipe firmly in teeth.... assuming something like
that could be done, and not crawl because of overhead, that ought to
give us what, maybe 1000 vups?  YIKES.... UFO-outer-spaceVAX!

Now, what venture capitalists are there in the crowd, and what sort
of sales pitch can we scribe together?    (:+}}...

(Think how 4.3BSD would absolutely fly like a meteor... for the retro folks!)

Bob