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From: nickel@prz.tu-berlin.de (Juergen Nickelsen)
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Subject: Re: Unix on a PDP-11 and a uVAX II
Date: 23 Dec 1993 18:14:22 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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References: <2f4kvd$bd3@werple.apana.org.au> <2f7p2a$cp7@dr-pepper.East.Sun.COM>
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In-reply-to: adh@rambla.Sun.COM's message of 21 Dec 1993 21:15:54 GMT

In article <2f7p2a$cp7@dr-pepper.East.Sun.COM> adh@rambla.Sun.COM
(Sandwich Maker) writes:

> if the mv2 is one of the ones that has a vax arch., then bsd unix
> should work on it, space permitting; it was written for the vax
> originally.

Yes. We had a Microvax II here running 4.3 for about seven years,
coma.cs.tu-berlin.de, also known as coma.uucp and
db0tui62.bitnet. Unfortunately it died with a motherboard error
several weeks ago. A very fine system, but a little slow for today's
measures.

--
Juergen Nickelsen