Subject: Re: netbsd on vxt2000 ???
To: John Maier <jmaier@midamerica.net>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 09/06/2002 17:53:59
> > Well, I have tried to get NetBSD to work on the VXT2000, but the VAX cpu
> > in it isn't made for running something real on it, so it's quite
> difficult.
> 
> Really?   What limitation(s) did you run into?
> 
For example the CPU hangs (hard, reset won't work) if some registers
that are unused on this machine are touched. This makes debugging 
quite hard.

> > Besides that, X window support must be written which may not be an easy
> > task.
> 
> Yeah true, but it would still make a fun little diskless workstation -- for
> which I can't figure out what one would do with it, even if it were maxed
> out at 18Megs...
> 
Yeah, and I think it would be fun to compile on. The CPU is quite fast.

-- Ragge