Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 22:31:17 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: Justin Ashworth <ashworth@fubar.cs.montana.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on VAXstation 2000 Message-ID: <199607240531.WAA03849@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Jul 1996 22:14:26 PDT." <Pine.BSI.3.94.960723221352.243K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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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. ...It might be fun to do a port to a VAX someday, but if I'm ever involved, I can say for certain that the VS2000 will not be my development machine - that's about as fast as a 386SX16. :-) ...Maybe a VS4000/96 or something. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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