[rescue] DECstation 5000

[Dave McGuire]

On July 15, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> > So what can these things run if not ultrix?  I have a couple of 5000
> > /200's and a 3100 awaiting rehab, and have been letting them gather dust
> > lacking any media or docs.  If it is possible to get a NetBSD or Linux
> > working on them perhaps they are worth the time to fool with.
> 
> I haven't looked in a while, but from what I understand NetBSD has
> supported them for quite some time.

  Bigtime, yes.  I first ran NetBSD/pmax in like 1995 or something.
It was quite stable even then.  I haven't run it in a while, but I'm
told that even the machine-independant SCSI subsystem is working on
the pmax port.

      -Dave

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