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To: Gunther Schadow <gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD/VAX anyone interested?
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From: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre-lists@noos.fr>
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Gunther Schadow <gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org> writes:

> I got some VAXen 6420, big machines. Mine has 6 CPUs. I was planning
> to boot myself with Ultrix, and then go on with NetBSD. Even 
> NetBSD's port-vax needs some tweaking for my hardware, XMI and 
> BI bus support is blank. I am with FreeBSD forever and FreeBSD
> has SMP which NetBSD has not. I want to run all of my 6 CPUs
> not just one. So, I am thinking about taking the Alpha port and
> reverse hacking it into a VAX port with lots of cheating with
> the NetBSD code. 

all you want to know about vax should be there :

http://www.vaxarchive.org/
http://minnie.tuhs.org/Quasijarus/

Cyrille.
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