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From: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
To: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] How to install 4.3BSD Quasijarus on VAXStation 4000 VLC?
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 12:33:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdTPBeHTifs3Cgaasda5BMqpwL8pT8S1NJY=MAnNCqgu4+p3Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2M3zV7DDcAuTBo5wedB9EC0qNEC8yriP07Kz4YPvkODEg@mail.gmail.com>

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The support just plain isn't there.  There isn't anything in src/sys/vax
for any 4000 machine, there isn't LANCE ethernet support in src/sys/vaxif,
I don't see any mention of any 53C* SCSI controllers anywhere in the source
tree, etc.  As Hans said, you're stuck with the older big iron and the
older MicroVAXes.  Heck, even adding support for the 4000/200 (still a pure
Q-Bus machine) looks like it would be a fair amount of work.

-Henry

On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 at 12:23, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:

> Henry - any idea is you add:   cpu             "VAX4000"
>
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 12:17 PM Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 at 12:01, Hans Rosenfeld <
>> rosenfeld@grumpf.hope-2000.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Are you sure that 4.3BSD Quasijarus supports running on a 4000VLC, or
>>> utilizing SCSI devices? Last time I looked it didn't support anything
>>> newer than the pure QBus MicroVAXen and VAXstations, and the only SCSI
>>> devices supported were those on MSCP-to-SCSI controllers.
>>>
>>>
>> Indeed, on Quasijarus the GENERIC config file only supports (see
>> https://github.com/abs0/4.3BSD-Quasijarus/blob/main/sys/conf/GENERIC.vax
>> ):
>> cpu             "VAX8600"
>> cpu             "VAX8200"
>> cpu             "VAX780"
>> cpu             "VAX750"
>> cpu             "VAX730"
>> cpu             "VAX630"
>> cpu             "VAX650"
>>
>> I think the only Unix to ever support the VLC was NetBSD, or maybe some
>> versions of OpenBSD did too?
>>
>> -Henry
>>
>

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      reply	other threads:[~2021-04-28 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-27 19:49 Adam Thornton
2021-04-27 20:51 ` Clem Cole
2021-04-28  3:01   ` Adam Thornton
2021-04-28 13:15     ` Clem Cole
2021-04-28 15:32       ` Adam Thornton
2021-04-28 15:46         ` Clem Cole
2021-04-28 15:42 ` Hans Rosenfeld
2021-04-28 16:16   ` Henry Bent
2021-04-28 16:22     ` Clem Cole
2021-04-28 16:33       ` Henry Bent [this message]

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