Subject: Re: current on vax
To: A. Wik <aw@narpes.com>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 11/20/2003 01:10:28
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, A. Wik wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, A. Wik wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> > >
> > > > And don't forget the VAX 9000!
> > >
> > > If I'm not mistaken, the fastest VAX is the
> > > VAX 7000 model 7xx with up to four NVAX5 processors.
> >
> > I'm a sucker for big iron...
> > But yes, the 7000-7xx is the fastest around.
> > I have a 7000-620 here. I wonder when we start porting NetBSD to that
> > one... :-)
> 
> By the way, there's a PDP 11/24 being retired in Vasa, Finland:
> http://narpes.com/aw/pdp/PDP-pics/

Fun. Not really a good 11, but okay for a small machine.

> Anything that's particularly worth keeping?

Of the PDP-11? Well, if you like PDP-11s, and want to play with them, it's
an okay system, but not the best around.

	Johnny

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