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From: vixie@gw.home.vix.com (Paul A Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Vax 11/750 and BSD (and AT&T)
Date: 26 Oct 93 08:45:13
Organization: Vixie Enterprises
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In-reply-to: brianm@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU's message of Tue, 26 Oct 1993 08:25:05 GMT

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?"
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Paul Vixie
Redwood City, CA
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