On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Mr Ian Primus wrote:
Well, Sridhar and I spent yesterday doing some
tinkering - I brought over my MicroVax II and we
attempted to load VMS onto it. Easier said than done.
<<SNIP>>
At this point, it was 3:30 AM. We decided to call it
a
day (night?). Maybe I'll try NetBSD again. There has
to be a way to get an OS onto a Vax in 70 megabytes.
My first VAX was a MicroVAX 2000 and it booted VMS from a local RD53
(71Mb?). This would have been something around VAX/VMS v5.4 and included
the help library and DECnet Phase IV, but no IP. My memory is a bit fuzzy
but I think I had it booting a bare minimal system from an RD52 as well,
but couldn't swear to this. At the time the place I worked at had a PC
maintenance dept that was well stocked with MFM/RLL drives, and I remember
trying all sorts in the thing with little or no success.
Andrew