From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 24 17:33:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rgmail.regenstrief.org (rgmail.regenstrief.org [134.68.31.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D17F37B423 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 17:33:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org) Received: from aurora.regenstrief.org (rgnout.regenstrief.org [134.68.31.38]) by rgmail.regenstrief.org (8.11.0/8.8.7) with ESMTP id f4P0aLX08190 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 19:36:21 -0500 Message-ID: <3B0DA85C.C08C952D@aurora.regenstrief.org> Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 00:33:32 +0000 From: Gunther Schadow Organization: Regenstrief Institute for Health Care X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD/VAX anyone interested? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, 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. I was just wondering if there are any retro computing freaks with FreeBSD who like to play with this too. If I'm alone I probably better stay with the nice port-vax crowd and NetBSD. cheers, -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow@regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistent Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message