Ultrix on an 11/730?

Brad Parker <brad(a)heeltoe.com> wrote: Please don't confuse BSD and NetBSD. It may help to realise that "net" is Russian for "no", so NetBSD really means "not BSD". I strongly encourage you to run 4.3BSD on your VAX. A Classic Computer should run a Classic OS! Standard 730 config. But the good part is that you have a tape drive, that's the most important and most often overlooked part. Yup. Yes, I'm pretty sure it was fixed, although since I have never actually had a 730 in my hacky hands I have never been able to see and verify it for myself. Ultrix V2.00 source contains the following comment (in /sys/stand/Makefile): # 9 Dec 83 --jmcg # Deleted special references to old 730 bug. There is no longer a # distinction between versions for 780, 750, and 730. Distribution # media, however, contain `boot_justask' as `boot' to avoid attempts # to boot prematurely. This comment makes me fairly assured that this bug was indeed fixed, and from the comment date apparently quite early. I have a copy of VAX-11/730 console and microcode cassette with microcode version 58, which almost certainly has this bug fixed. Unfortunately it is not a virgin copy but a mutilated one. It was copied under Vampirist Mediocre System (VMS) which did not do a true block-for-block copy like UNIX dd, but parsed the original RT-11 filesystem and copied only the files, constructing a new RT-11 filesystem on the copy, so the files are not necessarily in their original locations, the dates on the files are wrong (the date of VMS copying, not the original date), etc. Since this cassette image is mutilated, it is not on my FTP site, but I can send it to you if you need it. I am still looking for a virgin block-for-block 730 TU58 image. MS