Dave McGuire wrote:
On May 6, 2009, at 4:26 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:Very true, but I *have* a 7000. Wow I'd love to see NetBSD/vax on that.How very true, but I don't think NetBSD/vax runs on the '7000 yet. ;)Excellent, thanks for the info! Now I just have to choose a machine. I'm sorta torn between a 4000-90 (fast!) and a 4000VLC (tiny!). I'll probably go with the -90.Dave, you should realize that both of those are tiny VAXes...No, but it do run on 86x0 (or atleast should, except that 5.0 beta didn't when I tried). And that is even bigger than a 7000. :-)Yeah. I have a 7000 too, and all the required documentation of the machine to start working. I just haven't had enough time, and I've started loosing interest in putting any time into it.I guess I could try 5.0 again now, and see what happens. But I suspect it won't work... :-(Oh cool, I didn't know you had one! And the docs too? Very nice indeed. How rough will it be to get running, any idea?
Not me personally, but the computer club I'm involved in. We have a 7620. Pretty nice.We should also have a 7800-cpu somewhere, but I'm not sure we've kept track of it.
I guess it shouldn't be too horrible to get the machine running as such. The headaches are getting the bus support, and ethernet running. Not to mention ever using local disks, which means we'd need CI support (that would be very nice, but it's something NetBSD haven't tried for 15 years now... And for a good reason. It's not trivial.)
Johnny
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