Subject: Re: current port-vax status
To: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis@mcmanis.com>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/26/2006 13:49:47
Chuck McManis wrote:
> I've not completely vanished either. My "House of VAX" pages still get
> hit pretty regularly on my web site. Generally I've become a bit
> disappointed in NetBSD in general (perhaps in all of the *BSDs) in that
> the lean/mean operating system that had just as much as you needed but
> not too much seems to have been lost in a world where a PC with 256MB of
> main memory is considered practically an embedded system. The VAX has
> always represented for me the ultimate CISC machine, something that ran
> a multi-user operating system in less bytes than any thing else. I love
> having 32 terminals hooked up to a MicroVAX II and it isn't really even
> breaking a sweat.
I can only agree.
> That isn't NetBSD's charter, I understand that. Maybe 4.3 Tahoe is the
> best thing you can run on the machine these days.
Why Tahoe and not Reno? (Curious)
Johnny
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