Ultrix 4.4 and VaxStation 3100

From: Peter C. Wallace <pcw_at_mesanet.com>
Date: Wed Jan 2 19:34:57 2002

On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Fred deBros wrote:

> It's THE sore point of the netbsd/vax port and as long as nothing moves
> there, vaxen go to the dump! So do the mipsen by dec.

What are you saying about the mipsen? PMAX graphics are well supported by
NetBSD including graphics console and X. This has been true for years!

TC option cards are not so well supported but at least the PMAGB and
PMAGB-B are supported (no accell yet on PMAGB-B AFAIK) and there is
experimental support for the PixelStamp based cards.

>
> fred
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Clint Wolff (VAX
> collector)
> Sent: Wednesday, 02 January, 2002 17.56
> To: 'classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org'
> Subject: RE: Ultrix 4.4 and VaxStation 3100
>
>
> The last I heard, NetBSD didn't support any sort of graphics console.
> Not even as a text only console...
>
> Clint
>
> On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, David Woyciesjes wrote:
>
> > ! From: Jochen Kunz [mailto:jkunz_at_unixag-kl.fh-kl.de]
> > !
> > !
> > ! > (assuming X11 worked on
> > ! > the Vaxstation 3100 under Ultrix -- I assume it would.)
> > ! AFAIK the SPX graphics was not supported, only the mono and GPX
> > ! framebuffers.
> >
> > So there is some chance of NetBSD/Xwindows running on my b&w 3100m38?
> >
> > --- David A Woyciesjes
> > --- C & IS Support Specialist
> > --- Yale University Press
> > --- mailto:david.woyciesjes_at_yale.edu
> > --- (203) 432-0953
> > --- ICQ # - 905818
> >
>
>

Peter Wallace
Mesa Electronics
Received on Wed Jan 02 2002 - 19:34:57 GMT