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From: ivie@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Vax 11/750 and BSD (and AT&T)
Message-ID: <1993Oct26.095709.2617@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 26 Oct 93 09:57:09 MDT
References: <1993Oct25.045559.738@mcs.drexel.edu> <1993Oct26.082505.16404@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
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In article <1993Oct26.082505.16404@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>, brianm@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU (Brian Murray) writes:
> I have just downloaded the ftp-able version of BSD-Net/2. I understand
> that parts of it that contained AT&T code have been removed, namely
> some of the low-level driver and machine specific stuff for VAXen
> (and possibly other stuff I don't know about). Does anyone know
> exactly what parts are missing? And short of getting an AT&T licence,
> is there any alternate way of getting these files i.e. has someone
> written AT&T free versions of them? I have technical details of the
> VAX 11 innards (re. DEC VAX Hardware Handbook) and would be willing
> to write some code if the exact nature of the missing components
> was known. 

Your best bet would probably be to port NetBSD to the VAX. They've got it
running on PCs, Amigas, HP300s, and I hear rumblings of an impending Sparc
version.
> 
> Indeed, does there exist a completely AT&T free 4.3BSD (or any Unix 
> for that matter) that runs on the VAX?

No. The VAX-specific code in the Net/2 source tree is tied to the old
(pre-Mach) virtual memory system. That all needs to be redone.
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Roger Ivie      | Don't think of it as a 'new' computer, think of it as
ivie@cc.usu.edu |     'obsolete-ready'