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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 22:14:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: Justin Ashworth <ashworth@fubar.cs.montana.edu>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD on VAXstation 2000
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On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, Justin Ashworth wrote:

>   Does anybody know if FreeBSD would run on a VAXstation 2000? I've read 
> that BSD 4.3 will run on it, and would like to know if the code 
> similatities are enough that FreeBSD would run on it too. I don't know 
> many specifics about the system, but I believe it used to run ULTRIX in 
> its heyday.

Uh, I don't think so, unless a VAXstation is a i386 architecture.  :-)

Or someone knows something about FreeBSD's architecture support that I
don't.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major