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From: burns@eisner.decus.org (Scott Burns)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD on VAX?
Message-ID: <1994Dec30.113008.8327@eisner>
Date: 30 Dec 94 11:30:07 -0500
References: <3dumvk$d0b@nyx10.cs.du.edu>
Organization: DECUServe
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In article <3dumvk$d0b@nyx10.cs.du.edu>, psthomas@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Patrick Thomas) writes:
> Hi again,
> 
>   Wasn't there a VAX port of NetBSD once upon a time?  I could have
> sworn that I heard that it was completed a few months ago, but when
> I checked out the ftp.netbsd.org site, I couldn't find anything. I
> noticed that a bunch of stuff was in the "arch" directory, including
> some form of Sun 3 port, and a directory suspiciously labelled "VAX",
> but it was empty. So what's the latest? Was the VAX port ever completed?
> Is work still being done on it? Or was it scrapped?
> 
>   Thanks for any hints....
> 
>     -- Patrick
Last I heard it was booting single user on a 7xx machine. Pull back the mailing
lists regarding "ports" there is some info in there but not much.

scott
burns@eisner.decus.org