18 Oct
2003
18 Oct
'03
8:44 p.m.
The VAXen don't conform to this, I can't
recall the name
given to the uVAX 3400, the VS3100m38 only went far enough to
confirm that it worked, and the 4000/500 is OMEGA. If I get
the 11/730 running, I'll worry about a name then. The big
The VAX 4000-500 codename was Omega so you could use the
VAX-11/730's codename, Nebula to fit in (and the VAX-11/725 was
LCN - Low Cost Nebula).
problem there is what to do for mass storage, as I
don't have
a Unibus SCSI card and don't want to use a second backplane.
OTOH, it might be faster to boot diskless and run over the
net than hook up an R80... . The DG Aviions aren't really
It will boot from the TU58 but I don't know of anything that
will then boot it over the net over MOP. Writing something
to use bootp and tftp would be an interesting project!
Antonio
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