[rescue] WTB: Good 'antique' computer for education

[Brian Hechinger]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 11:19:41PM +0200, Sebastian Marius Kirsch wrote:
> 
> VAX architecture.) Besides, the VAX is *the* 32-bit killer minicomputer,
> *the* classic CISC architecture.

because of the extremely CISC arch, they don't need a whole lot of memory to
be efficient, although i've found that NetBSD needs quite a bit more memory
to be useful than VMS does.

> A Q-Bus VAX in a BA23 case is a 19", 4U (?) rack-mountable unit. Pretty
> small. Other VAXen go as big as you want.

actually, i think the BA23 rackmount is only 3U.  although i think they look a
lot better in the deskside pedestal: www.arkham.ws/complab/pics/PDP-11_23.jpg

i think the best part about that case is that there are far more QBus slots
than you would expect be in there.  very compact case.  very very nice.

-brian