4 Mar
2008
4 Mar
'08
12:06 a.m.
What people seem to forget (or ignore) is that unless
you decide to
emulate an existing DEC device, you not only need to write a device
driver for the OS, which sure is some work, but doable. But you also
need to write some bootstrap code,
Only if you want/need it to be bootable.
To use the MicroVAX-II example (because that's what I have), I'd be
perfectly content to netboot to get the OS kernel onto the machine,
provided it has local disk once it gets there. Hence the Qbus-IDE
project. Hence the plan to maybe even get that odd SCSI card (the
KZQSA was it? I forget) working.
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