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From: jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Vax 11/750 and BSD (and AT&T)
Date: 26 Oct 1993 16:16:01 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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References: <1993Oct25.045559.738@mcs.drexel.edu> <1993Oct26.082505.16404@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> <VIXIE.93Oct26084513@gw.home.vix.com>
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In article <VIXIE.93Oct26084513@gw.home.vix.com>
vixie@gw.home.vix.com (Paul A Vixie) writes:
>I worked on this for a while. The parts of 32V that aren't in BNR2 and
>won't be in 4.4BSD-lite include all the low-level VAX support. A lot of
>it is quite intense and I don't think a "free" implementation of them will
>ever be produced. A 750 is so much slower than a 486 that you just have
>to ask, "why bother?"
Newer VAXes perform like a 386 and are cheap used (VS 3100/38 is 4-5 MIPS).
The newest ones perform like a 486 but are more expensive.
But "why bother" is probably the right attitude even for newer models.
It would be a fun hack if someone gave me a reasonbly fast VAX and
documentation, but otherwise if I were writing or porting an OS I would
target one of 486, R4000, or POWER.
--
John Carr (jfc@mit.edu)