4 Jan
2002
4 Jan
'02
2:53 p.m.
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Matthew Sell wrote:
Don't forget that FreeBSD already runs on the VAX,
and FreeVMS (in my
project concept) would be an extension and implementation of the existing
FreeBSD kernel so that it "looks and feels" like VMS.
NetBSD works better on the VAX. I suggest that you check it out. It runs
on a far wider variety of hardware than FreeBSD.
I also wanted this implementation of FreeBSD to use
native DEC filesystems
and operate classic DEC hardware.
Depends on what you mean by "classic". If you want to do UNIX on PDP-11,
2.11BSD is probably your best bet. On VAX, it's probably NetBSD. But VMS
is quite a bit nicer on VAX than UNIX is, IMHO.
Peace... Sridhar