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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!gmi!zombie.ncsc.mil!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!news.hal.COM!decwrl!vixie!nnrp!vixie From: vixie@gw.home.vix.com (Paul A Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: BSD on VAXstation 2000 Date: 26 Sep 94 16:39:22 Organization: Vixie Enterprises Lines: 23 Message-ID: <VIXIE.94Sep26163922@gw.home.vix.com> References: <35pg6k$j4v@gwen.fwi.uva.nl> <MICHAELV.94Sep21140117@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <BRLEWIS.94Sep22113911@joy.mit.edu> <360d6c$1mj@panix2.panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gw.home.vix.com In-reply-to: tls@panix.com's message of 24 Sep 1994 01:24:28 -0400 >DECWRL ported 4.3BSD to the MV2000 and 3100, too. It's a real shame DEC was >too stingy to ever contribute the needed code back to CSRG. Eh? Having worked at DECWRL from 1988..1993 I would have known if this had been done. WRL ported 4.2BSD to their non-product Titan machines, and later on ported Sprite to the DECstation 3100, but there was never a VAX port. In fact there would be no reason to port 4.3BSD to the MV2000/MV3100 since those machines were all dogs (IMHO). I personally began a port of the later Reno/pre-4.4BSD to the KA630/650 but by the time I got done with just locore.s I already had too much Ultrix-specific and AT&T-specific knowledge encoded into it so I abandoned it in hopes that someone else would come later and do it without making it look so much like 32V. That's been done and there is a VAX port of NetBSD underway. majordomo@netbsd.org could tell you more. Please don't say bad things about DECWRL. They are a small island of sanity in the belly of a great mad whale and they need all the good vibes they can get. -- Paul Vixie La Honda, CA <paul@vix.com> decwrl!vixie!paul