Subject: Re: VAX 11/780 for sale on Ebay...
To: None <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/17/2003 11:39:25
On Sat, 17 May 2003 ragge@ludd.luth.se wrote:
> > Here's your chance to get your very own, personal 11/780... Unfortunately,
> > it's in Lockport, IL. - and the bidding starts at $1,500...
> >
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2730436049&category=1247
> >
> Heh :-) I compiled the release for NetBSD/vax 1.2 on one of those animals,
> it took 11 days to compile the system and two days (!) to gzip the tar files.
>
> Bless cross-compilation :-)
Except when there are differences, which means bugs sneak by (such as
texinfo not being compilable native as-is).
Johnny
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