Vax 6320 on Ebay

On Sat, 2005-08-20 10:41:19 +0200, Jochen Kunz <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> wrote: /me is somewhat proud :) Nope. ...and I'm not all that sure what I'll do right now with the box. That's a nice offer, thanks. Maybe I'll talk you into this. All the fun will start somewhen in the next week. Then, Michael and me will have some relais in place to allow remote power control. My first action will probably be to get a Linux kernel running on it. (I did start some coding last night (couldn't resist :-) but it's not yet working. Seems the stack pointer isn't correctly set, so it goes to paradise as soon as the first pushl is done...) Then I'll need to get the DEBNIs under control to allow NFS root. I haven't yet played a lot with NetBSD (only installed it on a 4000/90 for a test), but I think I'll load it on some more machines and study it (esp. the VAX part). That'll probably help getting SMP support :) As far as I know, this is the very first SMP machine available to us few Linux developers. (Side note: the location where the machine is hosted (the infamous, non-existing Bielefeld in NRW, Germany) will allow for some developer's meetings, so once we cleaned up the basement a bit, we can have hacking sessions. If anybody knows some cheap location that's offering some more space in NRW, please speak up. Some EUR are probably available to rent a larger room or small flat for http://lug-owl.de/ .) MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw at lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O f?r einen Freien Staat voll Freier B?rger" | im Internet! | im Irak! O O O ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA));