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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!merlin!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news2.near.net!news3.near.net!noc.near.net!eisner!burns From: burns@eisner.decus.org (Scott Burns) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD on VAX? Message-ID: <1994Dec30.113008.8327@eisner> Date: 30 Dec 94 11:30:07 -0500 References: <3dumvk$d0b@nyx10.cs.du.edu> Organization: DECUServe Lines: 19 In article <3dumvk$d0b@nyx10.cs.du.edu>, psthomas@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Patrick Thomas) writes: > Hi again, > > Wasn't there a VAX port of NetBSD once upon a time? I could have > sworn that I heard that it was completed a few months ago, but when > I checked out the ftp.netbsd.org site, I couldn't find anything. I > noticed that a bunch of stuff was in the "arch" directory, including > some form of Sun 3 port, and a directory suspiciously labelled "VAX", > but it was empty. So what's the latest? Was the VAX port ever completed? > Is work still being done on it? Or was it scrapped? > > Thanks for any hints.... > > -- Patrick Last I heard it was booting single user on a 7xx machine. Pull back the mailing lists regarding "ports" there is some info in there but not much. scott burns@eisner.decus.org