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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!decwrl!pa.dec.com!vixie From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: How to get BSD for DEC VAXStation 3100? Date: 10 Mar 93 12:02:02 Organization: DEC Network Systems Lab Lines: 27 Message-ID: <VIXIE.93Mar10120202@cognition.pa.dec.com> References: <1993Mar8.131136.290@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov> <1ngeuhINNkd2@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <C3noMG.6yG@panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cognition.pa.dec.com In-reply-to: tls@panix.com's message of Wed, 10 Mar 1993 04:32:40 GMT Ooops. Not quite: [Thor Lancelot Simon] > WRL also did this. I think I remember Paul Vixie saying it took "a few > weeks". God only knows who's allowed to distribute what to whom; if DEC > had half a decent set of brains settled anywhere in their executive levels > they'd donate what's needed to CSRG (is it the memory management that's > different? That's what I remember hearing, but I'm not sure...) and > generate enormous goodwill among their customers who might be stuck with > old VAXstations they can't use, while sacrificing a few sales of an > operating system that nobody much cares about anyway, and which can't be > generating much revenue for DEC at this point, after all. > 4.4bsd was on my list of things to port before I left DECWRL, but I don't think it's going to happen. 4.3-Reno supports the VAX and the VAX3100 is not hard to add (several device drivers are the same as on a VAX2000) but 4.3-Reno isn't available without a V32 source license and it doesn't have nice things like mmap() in any case. I pretty much think VAX BSD is a dead issue unless I take some hardware home with me when I leave (which, for those who havn't heard, will be June 4 of this year). -- Paul Vixie, DEC Network Systems Lab Palo Alto, California, USA "Don't be a rebel, or a conformist; <vixie@pa.dec.com> decwrl!vixie they're the same thing, anyway. Find <paul@vix.com> vixie!paul your own path, and stay on it." -me