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From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: *bsd for DEC-Station 3xxx ?
Date: 9 Oct 1993 19:44:33 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman MT, 59717
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Message-ID: <2974b1$gov@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
References: <296laj$s21@nic.belwue.de>
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Keywords: DEC

In article <296laj$s21@nic.belwue.de>,
Heiner Schepers <hschepe@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I can get a DEC-Station 3xxx (i think an 3100) for a very few DM.
>Currently it runs VMS but I want U*ix.
>Is there a version of some of the free BSD's that run on such a
>machine ?
>where ?
>what to do, to run X11 on it ?

If it has VMS on it, it's not a DECstation, but rather a VAXstation.

I am not aware of any ports of any Freely available Unix to the VAX series
of boxes.
-- 
 Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager                (406) 994-4780
 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
 Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717	osyjm@cs.montana.edu