Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 21:07:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it To: Chris Knight <chris@e-easy.com.au> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DEC 3000/700? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.44.0304172105330.473-100000@dijkstra.fi.infn.it> In-Reply-To: <20030417131355.GA64013@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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DEC3000/300 works GREAT with NetBSD installed on IT. Expecially NetBSD 1.6 works perfectly. I even can run Gnome on my DEC3000/300 Yes DEC3000 is obsolete but my DEC3000/300 150MHz CPU with 160MB RAM performs quite better than a ultra1 with 170MHZ ultrasparc. I invite you to try NetBSD as Wilko suggested, you will be very happy with NetBSD on your DEC3000. Rick On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 10:49:42AM +1000, Chris Knight wrote: > > > > > AFAIK TurboChannel support is not available in FreeBSD 5.0, but it > > > > seems to be available in 4.8-RELEASE. > > But it was not tested at all for 4.8 so... > > > Didn't think to check the 4.8 Hardware docs - I'd assumed that 5.0 > > would have been more complete. > > 5- dropped support for DEC3000 altogether. > > > > It was never very complete because there are no SCSI or display > > > drivers. > > A long time ago SCSI worked on DEC3000 IIRC (pre-CAM era). If you want > to run this box go for NetBSD. > > > > Unless you have the urge to port a SCSI driver from NetBSD, don't buy > > > this to run FreeBSD > > You don't want to *buy* a DEC3000 anyway. By now they should be free > from your neighbourhood dumpster. They are neat pieces of engineering, built > like a tank etc. But just completely obsolete by now. > > -- > | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org > |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-alpha-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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