Anyone have a spare DECstation in europe for a developer?

[David Brownlee]

On 31 December 2014 at 12:12, Holm Tiffe <holm at freibergnet.de> wrote:
> Johnny Billquist wrote:
>
>> On 2014-12-31 11:40, Holm Tiffe wrote:
>> >David Brownlee wrote:
>> >
>> >>On 29 December 2014 at 00:31, emanuel stiebler <emu at e-bbes.com> wrote:
>> >>>On 2014-12-28 14:56, David Brownlee wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>Björn Johannesson has been working on the VAX framebuffer and keyboard
>> >>>>code in NetBSD to get X running on the LCG equipped machines (like the
>> >>>>VAXstation 4000/VLC and 4000/60).
>> >>>>
>> >>>>He's expressed an interest in looking at some issues in the DECstation
>> >>>>X11 code, but doesn't have access to an appropriate machine.
>> >>>
>> >>>which DECstation, and which Graphic adapter?
>> >>>There where quite a few different ones on the TURBOChannel,
>> >>>from the very dumb frame buffer to the 3d ones ...
>> >>
>> >>My initial thoughts would be a nice little 3100 or possibly a 2100
>> >>with the simple framebuffer, but obviously the goal would be to
>> >>support whatever is available.
>> >>
>> >
>> >At least VS3100 M38 and M76 don't work with NetBSD, we realized this approx
>> >a year before. Martin got a machine from me to investigate further, but I
>> >think nothing has happened in this reagard since then.
>>
>> Uh... Holm... He was talking about a DECstation 2100 or 3100 here... Not
>> a VAXstation. :-)
>>
>
> Yes Johnny, I've realized that, but a few line above the VAXstations are
> mentioned.

I think Martin must have heard you reading the email when it arrived :)

Yesterday he submitted a bug report (with presumably temporary
workaround) for an NCR5380 DMA issue, which I think affects the
VAXstation 3100 models... :)

http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=49517