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[Toby Thain]

On 2018-03-14 6:55 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> On 14 March 2018 at 11:06, Adrian Graham via cctalk
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>
>> I'm in the process of giving
>> some of them away though because they take up too much room.
> 
> The OpenBSD project are, or were, looking for donations of high-end
> VAXstations. I offered them a VAXstation 4000/60 (Red Hat offered to
> sponsor shipping from London to Canada) but after some
> toing-and-froing, Theo DeRaadt turned it down.

OpenBSD can't support VAX-11 any longer, unless somebody implements TLS
for that architecture (which I believe would need major toolchain work?)

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20160309192510

That would explain why they no longer want VAX-11 hardware.

--Toby

> 
> Unfortunately, I believe RH has now lost my machine. :-(
> 
> But if anyone is willing to donate a /90 or similar, he might be interested.
>