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From: Brad Spencer <brad@anduin.eldar.org>
To: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] BSD 4.1, 4.1x, Quasijarus, and 4.3x
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2022 19:43:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xonv8xyw10w.fsf@anduin.eldar.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2OoK1xJXZZUN0jgw42J73kMurYHBDwXXFR_Ux8bjTu-KQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Clem Cole on Tue, 1 Feb 2022 19:22:07 -0500)

Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> writes:

[snip]

>> Well, no. Both OpenBSD and NetBSD ported back to the VAX, but the OpenBSD
>> effort has ended due to lack of hardware and interest. It appears that
>> NetBSD is still being actively developed on the VAX, however, so it's
>> possible to get a "modern" 4.4BSD derived system on that architecture.
>>
> Right - either current NetBSD or the Ultrix 4.5 is what I would do.  If
> NetBSD will run the Ultrix layered products, that would be the system with
> the most; but I'm not sure if that will work.   Ultrix for instance
> supports DEC (VMS) FTN - which I know you (Will) have been messing with.
> That is the best (most complete) FTN for Vaxen.  I believe there is Ada,
> PL/1 and maybe even Basic2 and Cobol/RPG [I think most of not all of the
> VMS languages for the VAX were released on Ultrix but frankly, I don't
> remember].

[snip]

NetBSD has a compat_ultrix that can be enabled for NetBSD/vax (and pmax
/ mips) that might allow some of those products to work.  The man page
for it does not mention any of that specifically and does say that there
are a few limits to it.

https://man.netbsd.org/compat_ultrix.8




-- 
Brad Spencer - brad@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-02  1:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-01 21:34 Will Senn
2022-02-01 21:47 ` Larry McVoy
2022-02-01 22:04 ` Chet Ramey
2022-02-01 22:18 ` Dan Cross
2022-02-02  0:22   ` Clem Cole
2022-02-02  0:43     ` Brad Spencer [this message]
2022-02-02  1:19       ` Will Senn
2022-02-02  1:35     ` Will Senn
2022-02-05 23:57     ` Chris Hanson
2022-02-02  1:30   ` Will Senn
2022-02-01 23:40 ` George Michaelson
2022-02-01 23:54 ` Steve Nickolas
2022-02-02  0:38 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2022-02-02  1:02 ` Seth Morabito
2022-02-02 10:28 ` Hans Rosenfeld

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