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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!neonlights.uoregon.edu!platform.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!news.lpr.carel.fi!usenet From: Ari Suutari <ari@hilti.lpr.carel.fi> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: netbsd/vax Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 08:19:11 +0300 Organization: Carelcomp Forest Oy Lines: 33 Message-ID: <318845CF.685D@hilti.lpr.carel.fi> References: <01bb35ea.c4450e60$06fad096@explorer.obu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hila.lpr.carel.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01Gold (WinNT; I) John Selph wrote: > > Has anyone had luck with the BSD port to VAX? We're going to have a > MicroVAX available here before long not for production use. I was > wondering what experience folks might have had with running NetBSD on one. > It's a MicroVAX 3100 btw. > -- I installed it to our old MicroVax II. The only problem I had was due to bad sectors in RD54 disks, but re-formatting helped. The system has been up for a couple of months now. We don't use it much, just some testing and mail traffic. BTW, there was one funny thing about this installation: We have a software which is very disk I/O-oriented - it does a lot of open-seek-read-write-close calls. When we wrote a benchmark which tested the disk operation algorithm and ran it on various machines, our old MicroVAX II with NetBSD/vax outperformed a 120Mhz Pentium running Windows NT (other unixes were quite fast also). This funny, since the MicroVAX isn't generally very fast machine ... Ari S. -------------------------------------------------- Hei! Puhumme myos suomea! Carelcomp Forest Oy Ari Suutari 53850 Lappeenranta ari.suutari@carel.fi FINLAND +358 53 669 5012