Moving a VAX 6000

From: Jochen Kunz <jkunz_at_unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
Date: Fri Feb 28 10:03:00 2003

On 2003.02.28 06:33 Jeffrey Sharp wrote:

> > What do you run it with (like what OS?).
> Presumably VMS, since I can get that through Encompass; I signed up a
> few months ago.
> IIRC LTIC NetBSD doesn't run on it. Is it too new for a 4BSD?
LTIC?
4BSD developement on the VAX stoped at the late 4.3BSD age. Once I got
4.3BSD-Reno running on MV 3900 (KA655) and AFAIK this was the last CSRG
BSD release with working VAX support as 4.4BSD/VAX is broken. Reno was
at the time of the VAX6k...
There are some bits of VAX6k / XMI support in NetBSD, but it is very
likely that it is not enough to get NetBSD running on a VAX6k. It seams
that the lack of VAX6k support in NetBSD is mainly caused by
insufficient docs about XMI. I know that they have lots of VAX6k
machines at northern Sweden where the NetBSD/VAX portmaster lives...
-- 
tsch??,
         Jochen
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