If you really want to stick a finger in the air, why not cross-compile
NetBSD/386 on a VAX... 8)

Regards,

John

-----Original Message-----
From: port-vax-owner@NetBSD.org [mailto:port-vax-owner@NetBSD.org] On
Behalf Of chriswareham@chriswareham.demon.co.uk
Sent: 25 April 2007 10:27
To: port-vax@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: Hooray!

bqt@softjar.se wrote:
> I've finally managed to build the whole distribution from start to=20
> finish without any hiccups. This is the first time in many years that=20
> has been possible.
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> Big congratulations, thank-yous and everything else to those involved.

> Mainly Matt Thomas, I believe. We owe you *a lot*. This is the best
news=20
> I've had in years.
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> Oh, and running "./build.sh build kernel=3DGENERIC" took a little over =

> four days on a VAXstation 4000/90.
> Now perhaps I should take a new peek at our VAX 7000 machine... :-)
> And I should fire up our 8650 and to an upgrade, and see how long that

> will take to build it all. Weeks, probably.
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> 	Johnny
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Great news! Now whenever Slashdot posts a NetBSD story the usual
detractors wont be able to sneer at NetBSD's portability by pointing to
the inability to do a native build on the Vax. All I need now is to find
some spare time to stick current on my VLC and see if Blaz Antonic's
framebuffer driver is still working. Even if it is, it would be
interesting to see how the code compares to the OpenBSD port of the
driver - as the guys who did the porting claim to have made some
improvements.

Regards,

Chris