Looking for a small fast VAX development machine

David Brownlee abs at absd.org
Mon Feb 22 04:29:40 CST 2016


On 22 February 2016 at 09:00, Holm Tiffe <holm at freibergnet.de> wrote:
>
> Bryan C. Everly wrote:
>
> > Greg,
> >
> > I applaud your goal.  I'm trying to resurrect my 3100 so I can try and keep
> > this architecture alive on OpenBSD.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bryan
>
> ...you would'nt have much fun. Even an 3100/M76 ist dog slow..
>
> Build a "world" on such a machine takes alsmost a week, not hours.

"Fun" is definitely dependent on frame of reference - I'm still
looking out for a uVaxII to go alongside my VAXStation 4000/90 on
which to run NetBSD (specifically to get timing numbers for every
NetBSD release, and "Just Because" :)


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