WTB: Pro380, VAXstation

From: Ethan Dicks <dickset_at_amanda.spole.gov>
Date: Thu Apr 15 19:02:52 2004

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 05:13:33PM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
> 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.

Well, the Pro-350 uses an F-11 CPU (same as the 11/23 and 11/24), and
the Pro-380 uses a J-11 CPU (same as the 11/73). The largest architectural
difference is that the J-11 supports split I&D space. As a result, the
Pro-380 should be able to load 2.11BSD which, I _think_, already supports
the MSCP disk controller in the Pro series (that's the nature of the patches
to 2.9BSD for the Pro-350... adding support for MSCP controllers).

I have both models at home, but have never taken the time to load BSD on
either one. I was working on them last year, upgrading the 128K boards
in my Pro-350s to 512K (remove 4164s, install 41256s, fiddle jumpers), and
was beginning to play with my Pro-380 when the PSU died.

The Pro-380, BTW, was formerly our 8530 console. When Software Results
closed, the 8530 was about the only CPU I didn't rescue (figuring I'd
never have access to 3-phase at home, and I already had a VAX-BI machine
that ran off of 110VAC). I wish I knew where that console interface
ended up - I had no idea at the time there was an IEEE-488 interface as
part of it.

-ethan

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