WTB: Pro380, VAXstation

From: Paul Koning <pkoning_at_equallogic.com>
Date: Thu Apr 15 16:13:33 2004

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Ponsford <tponsford_at_theriver.com> writes:

 Tom> Paul Koning wrote:

>> The bus architecture is completely unrelated to that of any other
>> PDP11, and ugly/messy/baroque/bogus at that.

 Tom> It uses a CTI bus and as far as I know it is the only DEC
 Tom> product (the 300 series) that uses it. It does however, offer
 Tom> bitmap graphics, that is usually unavailable for most pdp's.

That's true. A pretty limited one. And does any OS actually support
the graphics capabilities? I think even P/OS just treated it as
lobotomized VT100.

 Tom> There is a (modified) version of BSD 2.9 that runs on the
 Tom> Pro350, and is freely available

Hm... interesting. A Pro-380 is close enough to a -350 that it might
also run there; if not then it shouldn't be hard to fix.

     paul
Received on Thu Apr 15 2004 - 16:13:33 BST