Retrocomputing with a VAMP stack: VAX, Apache, MySQL & PHP

NetBSD runs on VAX, and has support for running a.out binaries from 4.3BSD. NetBSD also includes a IPv6 stack (KAME), and they have the best cross-platform source-based package management system, pkgsrc. Aside from how you're going to install it (and you're going to need, from the VAX's perspective, a giant hard drive - 200-400MB is what the base system alone will need), you'll also need a *lot* of patience while Apache and friends compile. Good news, though, your stuff won't compile to mind-boggling (even for modern machines) large binaries because NetBSD/vax has VAX support in it's ELF ld.elf_so. Don't know what the virtual memory subsystem is like for NetBSD/vax, but if it's anywhere as good as Linux or any *BSD on modern machines, you'll have copy-on-write fork()s and libraries that share read-only segments across unrelated main executables, which will be extremely useful in an environment strapped for free RAM. On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Jonathan Katz <jon at jonworld.com> wrote: