Upgrading a VAX4000-200 to a -500, -700 etc.?

Hi, I told you I got that VAX 4000-200 (not quite in my hands yet but soon.) But I really want to make it the fastest VAX around, i.e. that would be a -700 or something, right? Is such upgrade done simply by replacing the CPU blade? Or is there anything different about the Q-bus, PSU or whatnot? NetBSD's highest line of VAX is the -300 or -500, right? This is going to be my machine to build NetBSD kernels (I have basically given up on doing difficult development jobs on the VAX6000s. They're too slow. I have been trying three times to build GCC-2.98 and it failed every time. It's actually not so slow if you can do a parallel make, however, with GNU make and the -j option things get confused when bulding GCC. I think GNU make doesn't do a good job of keeping track of the dependencies between the parallel jobs, or, may be, the way the GCC makefiles are written they might escape GNU make's ernest attempt in synchronizing the parallel jobs. BTW: I remember Jason Thorpe said at BSDcon 2002 that NetBSD would soon be using GCC-3.0's full featured cross-platform compiling capabilities. Is that done already? I gues the best way for quick kernel build and debug turnaround would be doing it on my Laptop, which is by far my fastest machine. thanks, -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org