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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Free-BSD for MicroVAX???
Date: 11 Jul 1994 13:50:22 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
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In article <1994Jul10.000718.1427@penny.cs.fredonia.edu>,
Kevin V. Sobilo <sobi0268@mary.cs.fredonia.edu> wrote:
>
>I remember a while back people were looking to put Free-BSD on their
>MicroVAXen.. If anyone has, and is willin to make a copy for me, please
>let me know. Or if ayone has installed BSD on their MicroVAX, please
>let me know what they did and how tough it was...

It wasn't FreeBSD, but it might have been NetBSD.  FreeBSD currently only
runs on x86 stuff, while NetBSD runs on others.

Check out sunlamp.cs.berkeley.edu for the files, though I don't know it
VAX support is in there.

Nate
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