[TUHS] 4.4BSD and the MicroVax 3400

[TUHS] 4.4BSD and the MicroVax 3400

[Rob Becker]

Anyone here know if 4.4BSD supports the MicroVax 3400 series of machines? One 
was given to me by my school (clearing out old equipment) and I would like to 
get some pure BSD goodness on it again. Also, anyone know if it's possible to 
make tapes under VMS?
Thanks in advance,
Rob Becker

[TUHS] 4.4BSD and the MicroVax 3400

[Jochen Kunz]

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On 2002.01.24 16:07 Rob Becker wrote:
> Anyone here know if 4.4BSD supports the MicroVax 3400 series of
> machines? 
This is the complete list of supported machines od 4.4BSD:
cpu             "VAX8600"
cpu             "VAX8200"
cpu             "VAX780"
cpu             "VAX750"
cpu             "VAX730"
cpu             "VAX630"
cpu             "VAX650"
As you can see, you can not see a line for the KA640 CPU of the MV3400.
So this machine is not supported by 4.4BSD.

BTW: I am planing to do a BSD exhibition at the VCFE. I want to show:
PDP 11/73 running 2.11BSD
MV II running 4.3BSD-Tahoe
MV III running 4.3BSD-Reno
HP9000 3?? running 4.3BSD-Reno
HP9000 433t, PMAX, SPARC 2 and MV3600 running 4.4BSD
Maybe I can "borrow" the 11/750 of a friend to run 4.2BSD. 

So I am looking for binary distibutions of 4.3BSD-Reno for hp300 (AFAIK
there is only a VAX version in the archive) and 4.4BSD for anything else
than hp300. If there is somthing around, please let me know. 
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tschüß,
         Jochen

Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/

[TUHS] 4.4BSD and the MicroVax 3400

[Michael Sokolov]

Rob Becker <becker at ab.edu> wrote:

> Anyone here know if 4.4BSD supports the MicroVax 3400 series of machines?
>
> [...]
>
> get some pure BSD goodness on it again.

For VAXen you don't want 4.4BSD, you want 4.3BSD-Quasijarus, especially if you
want pure. Unfortunately, I haven't got the KA640 (3300/3400) support in there,
just KA650 (3500/3600) and KA655 (3800/3900). It would be trivial to add,
though, it just needs to be taught to look at the SIE in addition to the SID,
recognise the KA640, and don't try to touch the non-existent B-cache. This
wouldn't give you support for the on-board DSSI and Ethernet, but it'll run
with your Q-bus devices.

MS