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To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
cc: Justin Ashworth <ashworth@fubar.cs.montana.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: FreeBSD on VAXstation 2000 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 22:31:17 -0700
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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