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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!mcsun!sztaki!news From: pink@fsz.bme.hu (Szabolcs Szigeti (PinkPanther)) Subject: Re: Vax 11/750 and BSD (and AT&T) Message-ID: <CFnMvn.Mz6@sztaki.hu> Sender: news@sztaki.hu (News system) Reply-To: pink@fsz.bme.hu Organization: Department of Process Control, Technical University of Budapest, HUNGARY References: <2aolna$st@paperboy.osf.org> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1993 10:38:11 GMT Lines: 23 In article st@paperboy.osf.org, loverso@osf.org (John Robert LoVerso) writes: >|> "why bother?" > >To add to the flames, don't forget that you'll spend more on power and A/C >for a 11/750 than it would cost to buy a spiffy 486/50. > >John I i remember correctly, the poor guy who wanted to run BSD on 11/750 which he got as a donation, asked for advice on how to run BSD on them *NOT* for flames on why he should not use a VAX. What i know is that you will need an AT&T license for any BSD that exists on vaxen. A friend of mine was looking at the possibility of running Net/2 on 11/570, but to much stuff was missing and it was not worth the time to rewrite/debug it. Things like locore.s, device drivers etc. are really painful to develop. --- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |You are not expected to understand this | Szabolcs Szigeti | | -- Ken Thompson in swtch() -- | Internet: pink@fsz.bme.hu | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=