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From: ragge@adolf.ludd.luth.se (Anders Magnusson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD/VAX
Date: 24 Nov 1994 21:33:36 +0100
Organization: Lulea University Computer Society - Ludd
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In <CznBtp.4z6@fragile.termfrost.org> kramer@fragile.termfrost.org (Mike Andrews) writes:

>Can someone send me some info on what the status of the VAX port is?
>I've got two poor VAXstation 2000's I might want to do something useful
>with.  Last I heard, it was almost, but not quite, booting single user,
>but I don't know what device driver support is like or anything like that...
>or for that matter anything beyond just rumors.

So far it only support VAX 11/750, boots & runs multi-user but is
quite instable. Currently it only support RA disks on UDA50, but
there will me more devices supported as soon as it will run more 
stable. I also had an disk crash on my root filesystem, which has
delayed development a while...

About VS2000 I don't know so much. Is the disk controller an MSCP
controller? In that case you only have to write some routines to
support graphics card :)

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