VAX 8600 added to the VCF Archives

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Sat May 1 17:35:56 1999

>At 08:51 AM 5/1/99 -0700, Jim wrote:
>>So... what do you plan to be the first thing to boot up on it? [the 8600]
> B^}
>
>Well if we can rewhack the power controller to use a collection of 120V
>circuits then I've got a NetBSD kernel with 8600 support built into it. It
>would probably be a good candidate.

Bah, it's a VAX, it should be running VMS. I totally fail to understand
why, especially now that licenses are free for hobbyist use, anyone would
want to run UNIX on a VAX! A system like that should be part of a nice VMS
cluster!

                        Zane
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