DECstation 5000/125

From: Paul Thompson <thompson_at_athenet.net>
Date: Fri Jan 8 22:04:43 1999

netBSD has only been incompletely ported to the MIPS product line.

There still is no netBSD for a DECsystem 5400 or 5500.

Paul


On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Bruce Lane wrote:

> At 18:11 08-01-1999 -0600, you wrote:
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> >On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Joseph S. Barrera III wrote:
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> >
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> >> Does anyone know how/where/if I can get VMS loaded onto this guy?
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> >
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> >I'm confused. VMS for a DECstation? Don't you need a VAXstation for
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> >that? Or was VMS ported to MIPS?
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> Actually, NetBSD has been ported to the DECStations. It would
> be, IMO, a lot nicer to deal with than VMS (which, as far as I know, was
> never ported to the MIPS processor line).
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