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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!news.ci.com.au!metro!metro!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!Austria.EU.net!newsfeed.ACO.net!swidir.switch.ch!swsbe6.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!svuse.ubs.com!svnews.ubinet.ubs.com!svusenet.ubs.ch!zhmte From: zhmte@zh014.ubs.ubs.ch (Andreas Meister) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD for VAXstation 38 and 72 Date: 20 Feb 1996 08:35:15 GMT Organization: Union Bank of Switzerland Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4gc143-p1p@svstch.ubs.ch> References: <4g0qvj$633@gryphon.phoenix.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: svcmd01.flur.zuerich.ubs.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] Karen Williams (williams@phoenix.phoenix.net) wrote: : I have a VAXstation model 38 and 72 that I would like to get : running NetBSD. Most everything I have seen on the net : seems to be for the risc based DECstations. Does anyone : know of a port to the VAX machines? : : Thanks, ..hmm, VAX 3100 are not yet supported, altough work is underway to do so. But: There seem to be differences between the different VAX3100's that make the porting difficult. Ultrix (The BSD derivate from DEC) supported only up to the 3100/40 or /48, the newer models aren't supported anymore. So don't be deceived if the /72 never will boot NetBSD... Andreas -- ___________________________________________________________________________ Andreas Meister, Union Bank of Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland e-mail: Andreas.Meister@ubs.ch, zhmte@svewbl01.bussigny.lausanne.ubs.ch phone: +41 21 702 88 23________here's one straight from the factory________