Looking for a small fast VAX development machine

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Sun Feb 21 09:27:47 CST 2016


On 20 February 2016 at 19:51, Greg Stark <stark at mit.edu> wrote:
> I work on Postgres and we have always claimed to support VAX machines
> but have the caveat "Code support exists for M32R and VAX, but these
> architectures are not known to have been tested recently." in our
> documentation. Recently I started a project to get a member in our
> build farm building Postgres for VAX to fill this gap. So far I've
> been using simh but I would be really interested in getting a decently
> fast VAX that doesn't take too much space (or power) to run builds on.
>
> I am currently in Europe (Dublin) but will be visiting NYC, Florida,
> and Montreal in the upcoming months so this is a good chance for me to
> pick one up without paying exorbitant shipping if there's any around.


I have a VAXstation 4000 going spare. It's currently at Red Hat's
offices in Farnborough. More details on request (if I can find them!)

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