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From: mark@elea.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Vax 11/750 and BSD (and AT&T)
Date: 26 Oct 1993 17:13:18 GMT
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In article <1993Oct26.082505.16404@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au>,
Brian Murray <brianm@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU> wrote:
>I have just downloaded the ftp-able version of BSD-Net/2. I understand

> I have technical details of the
>VAX 11 innards (re. DEC VAX Hardware Handbook) and would be willing
>to write some code if the exact nature of the missing components
>was known. 

If you wanted to have a nice project, you could do a port of NetBSD for
the VAX.  It would be pretty intense-- you'd have to be doing it because
you wanted to do an OS port to a VAX, or because you particularly wanted
to be using a VAX.  

It most likely wouldn't be worth the time just to have a BSD machine.

[ Unless you have a free VAX, lots of time, and little prospect of having 
money anytime in the next few years... :) ]